From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 4 15:55:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16A2016A477 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:55:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from dd17730.kasserver.com (dd17730.kasserver.com [85.13.138.103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC3EF13C46B for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:55:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (sub87-230-112-52.he-dsl.de [87.230.112.52]) by dd17730.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E35311872DC6B for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:55:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (Postfix, from userid 8) id 69EEB15219; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:54:43 +0100 (CET) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Path: not-for-mail From: Christian Baer Newsgroups: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:54:43 +0100 (CET) Organization: Convenimus Projekt Lines: 33 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: sunny.rz1.convenimus.net X-Trace: nermal.rz1.convenimus.net 1202140483 65285 192.168.100.5 (4 Feb 2008 15:54:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@convenimus.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:54:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD/6.3-STABLE (sparc64)) Subject: Suggestion for a file manager? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:55:54 -0000 Good afternoon, everybody! I'm looking for a suggestion for a file manager. Something like the Total Commander known from Windows. I know the mc and I already use it. But it has a few functions I miss. Most importantly being able to create queues. I have a lot of work to do that looks like this: move a to A copy b to A move c to B ... Where small letters are directories or files and capital letters represent drives, mount points or other destinations. The idea is to be able to list all the things that have to be copied or moved at once and then to let the computer do its work while I am not around. Some of these tasks can take a while and I don't really like hanging around and waiting for one to finish so I can start the next. One solution (well, not really) would be to start multiple instances and start all the processes at once. This would be ok if all the work were done on seperate drives. But two copy instances from one HDD makes the whole thing a lot slower than if I just did the copying sequentially because of the increased head movement. One other thing I would really like is if this file manager didn't need X but runs on the console as the mc does. Can someone give me a suggestion? Regards, Chris