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SXFILER(1)  —  NEWS-OS Programmer’s Manual

NAME

sxfiler − NEWS Desk desktop tool, file manager

SYNOPSIS

sxfiler [−toolkit options] [−v]

DESCRIPTION

sxfiler is a file manager for NEWS Desk.  It displays the contents of the directories in the file system in separate windows.  The individual files in each directory are represented by icons.  By double clicking on or dragging icons, desired commands can be executed. 

When the program is first started up, a main window containing directory buttons.  You can register often used directories of your choice to appear in the main window for quick access. 

When you click on one of the directory buttons, the corresponding directory window is displayed.  These windows can then be used to perform various file management tasks, execute commands, etc. 

For detailed usage instructions, refer to Vol. 1 of the NEWS Desk User’s Guide in the NEWS-OS manual set. 

OPTIONS

−v When this option is specified, sxfiler outputs the path name of the open directory to standard output. 

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

sxfiler sets the environment variable DISPLAY to the display specified with the −display option. 

MULTI LANGUAGE SUPPORT

Japanese (Shift-JIS/EUC), Korean (EUC) and English (ISO 8859-1) are supported. 

FILES

/usr/lib/X11/sx/icons/∗
/usr/lib/X11/$LANG/app-defaults/SXfiler
/usr/lib/X11/$LANG/sx/sxfiler/sxbinds
$SXUSERRESDIR/$LANG/SXfiler
$SXUSERRESDIR/$LANG/sxbinds

SEE ALSO

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NEWS Desk User’s Guide Vol. 1

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 Sony Corporation

NEWS-OS Release 4.1C

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