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From: little@odin.ucsd.edu (Glenn Little)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: file manager
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Date: 2 Dec 89 00:16:55 GMT
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Reply-To: little@odin.ucsd.edu (Glenn Little)
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  I was recently playing with sun's "filemgr" program.  It's a sort
  of Mac-like (I think it's Openlook?) multi-window interface to the
  file system.  You get a graphic tree showing the directories, and
  you can change directories, bring up editors on files and so on
  by clicking on the right place.  It seems like it could be useful
  (it's certainly a much more intuitive view of "where you are")
  except that as far as I can tell, it only runs on a workstation
  console, and shows you that filesystem.  I really only use my
  workstation as something to manage a bunch of windows to other
  systems where I do my real work.  So I thought maybe there would
  be an X version of this program that I could run on the systems
  where I do my real work.  Does anyone know of such a thing?  This
  is one of the best uses of mice that I've seen.  It's something
  where a graphic interface really is better than typing.  I get
  tired of typing "cd <longpathnamewithlotsoftypos>" all the time.

  Thanks.

		Glenn Little
		little%cs@ucsd.edu