With Alt-F2/Network you can browse network drives without mapping them. Reconfiguring FAR to use Pkzip 2.5 (long filename-friendly version) - Goto Options/Plugin Configuration/Archive Support: command lines/ZIP. Enter new values for: Extract: pkzip25 -Extract -Directories -Overwrite {-Password=%%P} %%a @%%lNM and Extract without directories: pkzip25 -Extract -Overwrite {-Password=%%P} %%a @%%lNM There's a way to work with a subset of files (useful when you have a large diectory) - do a search and select 'Panel' in search results. File panel setting 'Wide' works well with long file names. You can change attributes of a group of files by tagging them before going to Files/Attributes. It won't show you the current values, but will allow you to specify what the attributes should be. If a file is being continously appended (say, a log file), you can open it vith FAR viewer and watch it grow - contents are refreshed automatically! When you need to duplicate ftp entry, you can copy it to a directory with F5, make changes and then copy back to ftp panel. FAR can read UNIX .gz files provided that GZIP.EXE is in path. You can search FTP for a file with Alt-F7, just like you do with regular disk! Press F3 next to directory and FAR will tell you its size. When uploading source code using FAR, make sure you check 'Ascii mode' box. 'Move' command works with FPT site - you can use it to download file and delete it from remote host! Here's little hack I wrote for IC. It allows you to press a key and shortcut to hilited file will appear on the desktop. The program is defined in User Menu like this: shortcut.exe !.! Download shortcut.exe I've rewritten it as a console mode VB application. You'll need VB libraries, but probably you already have them. Get starshoj.exe - it works same way as shortcut.exe, except this one creates shortcut in the Startup folder. Multiple viewer/editor windows are supported - use CTRL-TAB to toggle between them and file panels. This can even be done when you are viewing files from FTP site! Using FAR to browse FTP site is almost as good as having files on local disk, only slower. Buil-in viewer has key Shift-F8 which allows you to switch between cyrillic encodings! Windows Paste key (Shift-Ins) is supported. EXE files for (some) Microsoft installation programs are actually .CAB files. So, if you change filetype to .CAB, you can use FAR to transparently see file contents!!! (Though, extract doesn't work this way). CTRL-1, CTRL-2... CTRL-7 in Alt-F1 toggle how derscriptive drive list will be.