Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!wugate!uunet!crdgw1!montnaro From: montnaro@sprite.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: An X file manager???? Message-ID: Date: 1 Nov 89 17:55:59 GMT References: <25@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <2027@bacchus.dec.com> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: (Skip Montanaro) Followup-To: comp.lang.visual Distribution: comp Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development, Schenectady, NY Lines: 27 In-reply-to: klee@chico.pa.dec.com's message of 31 Oct 89 21:38:34 GMT In article <25@watserv1.waterloo.edu>, pfratar@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Paul Frattaroli - DCS) writes: > Has anyone here heard of, seen, heard rumors about, are working > on an X implememtation of a file manager, much like the ones that > proliferate in the Public Domain in I*M PC land. Sun distributes filemgr as part of its X11/NeWS offering. It provides a Mac-ish interface to the file system. As Ken Lee pointed out, it has most of the power and limitations of the Finder i/f. One particular problem I haven't seen solved well is that of navigating around in an enormous file space. Your typical Mac probably has less than 100MB of disk space, all of it local to the computer, and probably familiar to the user. I have 138 MB available, just for my user disk space. Our two Encore file servers each have 6 GBs, and we have many Sun file servers with storage capacities between 500 MB and 2GB. Of course, NFS and Sun's automounter have conspired to make most of this storage easily visible to me. How do you navigate around in such a huge file system tree? If this discussion is to continue along the thread I've started, it's best moved to another newsgroup, such as comp.lang.visual or comp.graphics. Accordingly, I've directed followups to comp.lang.visual. -- Skip Montanaro (montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com)