[comp.windows.x] directory browser

jhs@rocksanne.UUCP (Hans Schlichter) (12/23/88)

A while ago somebody was asking for a directory browser under X11.
I wrote a simple directory and file browser for X11 R3 which
provides a graphical interface to list files, search files and 
invoke editor or other shell commands. Is there a general place or
a general mechanism to deposit X applications if there is enough 
interest.
It was developed under SUN OS 3.2 and runs also under 3.5/4.0. There
might a problem on other machines because it uses the regular
expression library of Sun OS.

Thanks
/Hans

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meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) (12/24/88)

In article <629@rocksanne.UUCP> jhs@rocksanne.UUCP (Hans Schlichter) writes:
>A while ago somebody was asking for a directory browser under X11.

Please send me a copy of this. I would like to turn it into a widget,
if reasonably easy.

-Miles (gatech!stiatl!meo)

sues@dad.UUCP (Cal Crowley) (12/29/88)

I'm new to the net so don't know the best way to make the source available,
but I would like to see the code for your browser.

		"(thanX), the exchequer of the poor"
					Shakespeare, King Richard II (edited without permission)

jhs@rocksanne.UUCP (Hans Schlichter) (01/04/89)

Thanks for all the responses I got for the directory browser.
I copied a compressed shar file to expo.lcs.mit.edu into
the directory /contrib. The file name is xbrowser.shar.Z.

I also attempted to send a copy to x-sources@wyse.com. If
I did everything right then it should appear sometime later
in comp.sources.x

/Hans

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jhs@rocksanne.uucp (Hans Schlichter) (01/04/89)

I should add one note with respect to the copyright notice as
several people asked.

You can modify the code and add new features. However, you
should leave a notice in it which determines where the code
originally came from. The copyright notice is only relevant 
if somebody wants to take it and sell it as a product or register
it with the government. 

The directory browser is not a Xerox product;it is unsupported.

/Hans