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Project Summary

GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and therefore qualifies as Free Software. It's a feature rich full-screen text mode application that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees, search for files and run commands in the subshell. Internal viewer and editor are included.

Midnight Commander is based on versatile text interfaces, such as Ncurses or S-Lang, which allows it to work on a regular console, inside an X Window terminal, over SSH connections and all kinds of remote shells.

In a Nutshell, GNU Midnight Commander...

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has had 31,350 commits made by 439 contributors
representing 219,604 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with an average number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
with increasing Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 58 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in January, 1997
ending with its most recent commit 16 days ago

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