Wal Commander

Spec sheet

Product

Wal-Commander is a freeware cross-platform two-pane file manager with graphical (wcm) and console (wcc) versions.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sites.google.com

Supported platforms

Windows,LinuxRead 24 Sep 2026 · sites.google.com

Free plan

YesRead 24 Sep 2026 · sites.google.com

License

The maker says the program can be distributed and used as freeware and under a license.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sites.google.com

Maker

The home page credits Wal (Valery Goryachev) and provides the contact address [email protected].Read 11 Oct 2026 · sites.google.com

Archive support

The maker lists read and write support for ZIP and several TAR and compression formats, plus read support for ISO images.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sites.google.com

Dual-pane view

YesRead 24 Sep 2026 · sites.google.com

Editor and viewer

The maker lists a text editor with syntax highlighting and a text viewer.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sites.google.com

Encoding

The editor and viewer can switch encodings, and console mode can use different system and terminal encodings.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sites.google.com

Implementation

The maker says Wal-Commander is written in C++.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sites.google.com

IPv6

The changelog says IPv6 support for FTP and SFTP was added in test mode and is disabled by default.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sites.google.com

Release history

The changelog lists version 0.24.3 dated September 22, 2020, while the home page identifies version 0.24.1 as current.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sites.google.com

Remote filesystems

Built-in virtual filesystems support SMB, FTP, and SFTP.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sites.google.com

Terminal

The package includes a separate terminal emulator called Wal Terminal (wterminal), and the file manager also has a built-in terminal.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sites.google.com

Windows SFTP limitation

The changelog notes that in the preceding Windows build, SSH and SFTP did not work on Windows 10 version 19.09.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sites.google.com

Windows update

The changelog says the Windows builds of wcm, wcc, and wterminal in version 0.24.2 were compiled with libssh2 1.9.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.1d.Read 11 Oct 2026 · sites.google.com

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Where Specifiction places it

• File Manager Software#69 of 1007.6