
What is pfm?
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  pfm is a filemanager for the X Window system based on OSF/Motif (TM).

  main features:

  - more than one directory can be open at the same time within one window
  - you can manipulate all files in all open directories
  - using drag and drop for copying, moving, deleting files
  - automatic update if an open directory was changed
  - customizable toolbar

Requirements
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  pfm should run on any machine which provides a "Un*xish" operating
system and the X window system (R5-6). But I have only tested it under
Linux. A precompiled Linux binary comes with this distribution.
For more details about this binary see the file INSTALL.
If you want to compile pfm for your own, you will need OSF/Motif 1.2
or above, the XPM library and a C++ compiler.

Documentation
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  There is no help system for pfm available yet. Sorry for that.
Just start pfm and try:

  - doubleclicking on a directory or executable file
  - doubleclicking on a file with an extension
    specified in the file ~/.pfminit

  - dragging files from one directory and dropping them in another
    directory or in the area where two icons ("tree" and "house")
    are already located

  - pressing the right mouse button over the icons
    in the area I just mentioned

  - pressing the left mouse button over an icon representing a directory

  - pressing the right mouse button within a directory

That's should be enough to get started.


Bugs and limitations
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  pfm doesn't handle files with filenames longer than 30 correctly.
This will be fixed in the next version.

  The function to select some files is only a hack to get something
going. I should use the regex stuff instead. But I haven't found
any documentation about it.


  Please send bug reports, suggestions and comments to: 

  patrick.voigt@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de


License policy
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  pfm is shareware. For more details see the File LICENSE.


Enjoy!

Patrick Voigt
