### Welcome to X Northern Captain v.5.x.x

XNC Index:
Overview
Installation
Panels
Commands
VFS_support
Bookmark
Extensions
User Menu
Hot Keys

X Northern Captain (XNC) is a file manager for X Windows. XNC has the same ideology as Norton Commander but also many additional and specific functions including a Virtual File System (VFS) with support for tar, zip, rar, rpm, deb, bzip2, and lha archives, FTP support, built-in terminal, viewer for JPEG, GIF, BMP, TGA, XPM, and XBM formats, an editor, users menu, extensions sociation, bookmarks for frequently used directories, and more.

- Two panels with highlighted directory listings give You simple and easy way to manipulate files on Your system.
- Built in xterminal window for executing shell commands.
- Bookmark feature allow You to remember Hot Directories and quick changing to it.
- Virtual File System can manipulate files in popular archive formats and over FTP connection as easy as with files on normal Disk file system (DFS).
- Wide variety of file operations:

- Browse directories on disks, archives and FTP sessions
- Copy/Move files from virtual file system
- Delete files
- View files in text/binary modes or as images
- Edit text files in builtin or external editor
- Execute files from any type of file system
- Change attributes of files
- Change owner of files
- Create archives
- File, directory and system information
- and more... (see commands for complete list)

- User difened file associations with your favourite applications
- Configurable user menu for often using commands.
- XDnd v3 - drag and drop protocol for mouse fans, that allow dragging files between xnc and many other polular applications like GNOME and KDE apps.
- Free way for defining your own hot keys to xnc commands via xncsetup tool.
- Skin plugins and color changing schema allows xnc to be configurable as you wish
- Many other configurable feature are accessible in xnc configuraion window.

XNC is written in C++ and ported to many unix platforms, so you can use it on your favorite OS.

For detail information about:

- Various installation schemas and process see Installation.
- Virtual File System organizations see VFS support.
- Panel conception and work with it see Panels.
- Bookmark manipulations see Bookmarks.
- Full list of xnc commands with description see Commands.
- How to write extension association file see Extensions.
- Define you own user menu in User menu.
- Default hot key mapping to xnc commands see Hot Keys.

XNC ξονε xnc.dubna.su |

Author Leonid V. Khramov
leo@xnc.dubna.su
St-Petersburg
Russia
1995-2002