2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
9 Type this ($ is the shell prompt):
13 and follow the on-screen instructions. If you want to compile as a normal
14 user and install as root then you should do this instead:
16 $ ROX-Filer/AppRun --compile
18 [ enter root password ]
24 Help for ROX-Filer can be found in the directory ROX-Filer/Help.
27 About the 'rox' script
28 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
29 This is a little PERL script for opening files. It will guess the type of
30 the file and then find a program to open it with. It is intended to be used
31 as part of the ROX Desktop:
32 <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tal197/rox.php3>
34 Note that it requires a little setting up, but after that you can say, eg:
37 (to display the picture)
40 (shows the /tmp directory in a filer)
43 (opens the current directory)
48 To install the script, simply put it into a directory in your PATH variable.
49 '/usr/local/bin' is a good choice, if you have permission to write there.
50 The install script will do this for you.
56 Two places are used for configuration files:
59 Contains the rules for guessing a file's type from its name.
60 Many programs come with files called '<prog>.mime' which contain
61 additional rules. Put these files in the MIME-info directory too.
63 <Choices>/MIME-types/*
64 Contains programs or symlinks which will be run.
69 $ <Choices>/MIME-types/image_gif picture.gif
70 or, if that isn't found,
71 $ <Choices>/MIME-types/image picture.gif
73 In both cases, <Choices> is all the directories in your CHOICESPATH
74 environment variable, which defaults to:
76 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
78 The leftmost directory listed is searched first, followed by the others in
79 order. If the string starts with a `:' then saving is disabled and no program
80 will attempt to save any configuration into it. For more details, see:
82 <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tal197/choices.php3>
87 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
88 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
89 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
90 (at your option) any later version.
92 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
93 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
94 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
95 GNU General Public License for more details.
97 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
98 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
99 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
101 Please report any bugs to me, <tal197@ecs.soton.ac.uk>.