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 If you got this from CVS then you'll need to run 'autoconf' before you can
30 You will also need to create the postscript manual from the Lyx file and
31 run 'dist' in 'ROX-Filer/src/po' to get the translations.
33 Instructions on getting rox via CVS can be found at:
35 http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=7023
37 Once you have a version of rox from CVS you can update it by simply doing
41 from inside the 'rox' directory.
43 Finally, remember that the CVS version is the very latest developer code. It
44 has not been well tested. It may have bugs. It may not even compile. You
50 Help for ROX-Filer can be found in the directory ROX-Filer/Help.
53 About the 'rox' script
54 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
55 This is a little PERL script for opening files. It will guess the type of
56 the file and then find a program to open it with. It is intended to be used
57 as part of the ROX Desktop:
58 <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tal197/rox.php3>
60 Note that it requires a little setting up, but after that you can say, eg:
63 (to display the picture)
66 (shows the /tmp directory in a filer)
69 (opens the current directory)
74 To install the script, simply put it into a directory in your PATH variable.
75 '/usr/local/bin' is a good choice, if you have permission to write there.
76 The install script will do this for you.
82 Two places are used for configuration files:
85 Contains the rules for guessing a file's type from its name.
86 Many programs come with files called '<prog>.mime' which contain
87 additional rules. Put these files in the MIME-info directory too.
89 <Choices>/MIME-types/*
90 Contains programs or symlinks which will be run.
95 $ <Choices>/MIME-types/image_gif picture.gif
96 or, if that isn't found,
97 $ <Choices>/MIME-types/image picture.gif
99 In both cases, <Choices> is all the directories in your CHOICESPATH
100 environment variable, which defaults to:
102 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
104 The leftmost directory listed is searched first, followed by the others in
105 order. If the string starts with a `:' then saving is disabled and no program
106 will attempt to save any configuration into it. For more details, see:
108 <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tal197/choices.php3>
113 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
114 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
115 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
116 (at your option) any later version.
118 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
119 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
120 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
121 GNU General Public License for more details.
123 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
124 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
125 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
127 Please report any bugs to me, <tal197@ecs.soton.ac.uk>.