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Xfm version 1.3.1 now available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sun Feb 19 13:48:59 1995
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 18:45:23 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
Subject: Xfm version 1.3.1 now available
From: Robert Vogelgesang <vogelges@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
Keywords: X11 file application manager
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
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Announcing
Xfm - The X File Manager (ver 1.3.1)
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(c) Simon Marlow 1990-1993 simonm@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk
(c) Albert Graef 1994 ag@muwiinfa.geschichte.uni-mainz.de
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
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This is a powerful file and applications manager program written using the X
toolkit. It contains virtually all of the features that you would expect in a
file manager -- move around your directory tree in multiple windows, and move,
copy or delete files with simple mouse operations. Directory displays are
updated automatically in regular intervals when the contents of a displayed
directory changes. The integrated application manager allows you to load files
into your favourite applications from the file manager by dragging icons. It
can also be used as a "shelf" onto which you can place files and directories
you are currently working with. A special LOAD action for application files
enables you to manage different application groups.
Release 1.3.1 adds an automatic shell detection feature, which has been
contributed by Robert Vogelgesang (vogelges@rhrk.uni-kl.de). We hope that this
transparently fixes the problems with different shell argument passing
conventions which have been encountered with release 1.3. The configuration
files supplied with the package should now work with any popular shell -- if
not, set the new X resource Xfm.BourneShells; see the man page for details.
Other changes since version 1.3:
* added some icons (in particular, note that the applications window
has a new icon, xfm_appmgr.xpm, which now has the same size as the
file window icon; the "button bar" icon, which used to be in
xfm_appmgr.xpm, is now in apps.xpm)
* bug fixes:
- initialization of file types in text display
- initialize parameter dialog fields
- handle \% in push and drop actions
- invoke executable with absolute pathname
- fixed buggy use of alloca in FmAw.c; added casts to (char *) to
all invocations of alloca
* some portability patches
* some cosmetic changes and bug fixes in configuration, make, and
documentation files
* code cleanup; updated documentation.
Thanks to all of you who reported bugs and contributed patches!
Xfm 1.3.1 has just been uploaded and will be available at the following sites:
ftp.x.org /contrib/applications
sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/X11/xutils/managers
Albert Graef <ag@muwiinfa.geschichte.uni-mainz.de>
Robert Vogelgesang <vogelges@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
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