Maintenance/feature update over v0.9.4.

Changes

• Remote panel: the .. (parent) entry is no longer shown at the FTP root directory, where there is no parent.
• New — Alt+F2 "Detail": popup showing the selected entry's full filename (the panel column truncates long FTP names) plus its size in Bytes, KB, MB and GB.
• New — Alt+F5 "Refresh": re-read the active panel's directory, e.g. to pick up a file newly added on the FTP server. Both labels appear on the function-key bar while Alt is held.
• File sizes are now displayed consistently throughout the app using the classic 1024-based KB/MB/GB convention.

Assets

• FTP4DOS.EXE — the DOS executable (real-mode 386, large model).
• ftp4dos-mtcp-src-2025年01月10日.zip — the official mTCP source (version 2025年01月10日) this build links against, provided per GPLv3 §6.

FTP4DOS v0.9.4

Transfer

• Live telemetry: current/average speed, ETA per file and for the whole batch
• Pause (P) and cancel (ESC) during transfers
• Copy/Move/Delete confirm dialogs now show recursive file/directory counts and total size

Display & i18n

• Compact size display for large files (M/G units), no more column overflow
• Locale-aware number/date/time formatting from the DOS country block

New features

• Alt+F9: file checksum (CRC32 + MD5), local and remote, optional save-to-file
• Alt+F3: configurable per-panel sorting (name/extension/size/date/time, ascending/descending)

Dialogs & input

• Comfortable input fields everywhere (cursor movement, Home/End, Del, mid-line insert)
• F1 help texts cleanup

Build: Open Watcom (16-bit real-mode DOS). mTCP official 2025年01月10日 (unchanged).
Source of the bundled mTCP: ftp4dos-mtcp-src-2025年01月10日.zip (GPLv3 §6).

• Renamed NCFTP386 → FTP4DOS (thanks to Yoghoo for the suggestion!)
• Swap panels with Ctrl+U (remembered across launches)
• Move with F6 (copy + delete source, recursive); rename moved to Alt+F6
• Confirmation dialogs default to Yes
• FTP panel preserves the server's original (case-sensitive) file names
• Monochrome (MDA/Hercules) display support; /MONO and /COLOR overrides
• ALT command bar (Norton-style): Alt+F1 Drive, Alt+F6 Rename

Changes since v0.9.0

• Migrated from retrohun fork to official mTCP 2025年01月10日 (brutman.com, GPLv3)
• Translated all source code comments to English

Assets

• NCFTP386.EXE - DOS binary (8086/386+ compatible)
• ncftp386-mtcp-src-2025年01月10日.zip - mTCP 2025年01月10日 source code (GPLv3 §6)

Norton Commander-style dual-panel FTP client for MS-DOS on real x86 hardware, built with Open Watcom and mTCP (https://github.com/retrohun/mTCP).

Features

• Two panels: local (DOS) and remote (FTP, passive mode)
• Copy in both directions (F5), including recursive directory trees
• Multiple selection with the Ins key (Norton style) for copy/delete
• Create (F7), rename (F6), recursive delete with pre-count confirmation (F8)
• Navigate directories; view files with F3 (or Enter) — up to 32 KB displayed
• Remote view (F3) downloads to a temporary file first, then opens the viewer
• Edit local text files with F4 — minimal full-screen editor (~32 KB, local only)
• FTP connection keepalive: sends NOOP every 60 s to prevent server idle timeouts
• Bilingual German/English UI (auto-detected from DOS country setting, or forced on the command line: NCFTP386 /L:EN)
• Tested on real 386 hardware with a genuine LAN card

Requirements

• MS-DOS 5.x (or higher/compatible), ×ばつ25 text mode
• Packet driver + mTCP configuration file (MTCPCFG env variable) + valid IP

Assets

• NCFTP386.EXE - Ready-to-run DOS binary
• ncftp386-mtcp-src-ad9cd0f.zip - mTCP source (GPLv3 §6 — corresponding source for the statically linked mTCP library)