Short history of the project

My name is Leonid V. Khramov. I'm from St. Petersburg, Russia. I began to develop X Northern Captain in December 1995, because there was no orthodox graphical X file manager for Linux. And i like such kind of file managers. There are many popular ones for windows platform, such as Windows Commander and Norton Commander.

So where was I? Ooh, i started to write xnc as a small project only for my usage, i wanted to make navigation through file system easier and more visual.

First two versions were only for my internal use, and then suddenly i gained access to internet and decided to share my small piece of software with other people. I wanted to know that did anybody except me need such kind of software? That was 3.0 version of XNC. I received a lot of e-mails with criticism and congratulations, and i continued my work of improving xnc. As the result of this development i added Virtual File System support to file manager and taught it to read many types of archives. Also i added many features that make your life easier and help you to have information on your fingers. That war 4.0 version.

This version contained many additions to the interface and xnc setup tool that allows you to tune colors, fonts and hot keys for xnc. I prefer working with keyboard, so xnc was oriented to work with it, any function in xnc can be assigned to the hot key you like.

Since the 4.0 version there was a long period of time while i have no time to develop xnc, only a couple of hours per month. XNC is my hobby, not my work so time is always a limit. But anyway, i continued to develop it and added FTP support to VFS. That was 4.4 version.

Now i added many features requested from users, you can find them on 'What's new' page, reorganized the code and slightly changed visual appiarence of xnc.

So enjoy it and mail me your oppinion.

Best regards,
Leonid V. Khramov, 01-Jan-2003, St.Petersburg, Russia