Vfu is a nice file-manager using the ncurses library. It has many nice features:

* Fast one-key commands * Filename completion and wildcard expansion * Directory tree with sizes * File-type colorization * Archives support (TAR, TGZ, BZ2, and many more) * FTP support through archive-like interface * Internal text/hex file viewer and hex editor * Automount feature * Extensive user-defined external support/utils!