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README for NeXplorer 1.0 (Beta) for OpenStep 4.2 for Windows ------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION ----------- NeXplorer is a freely available OPENSTEP fileviewer for Windows NT. It has been written for those people who spend most of their day under Windows and have to painstakingly bear navigating the file system using the tools that Windows provides for them. It consists of the following components * FileViewer with a filebrowser and an iconpath * A resizable shelf for placing commonly accessed files, folders, or applications * A panel for sending Email * A preferences panel for setting various application preferences * An inspector panel for viewing information about specific files or folders * ToolBar See the FEATURES section below for more information on each of these components. Visit the NeXplorer web site (http://www.serv.net/~khans) for more information including more in-depth description of its features, known bugs, and screenshots. IMPORTANT NOTE -------------- File operations have been disabled for this release. Dragging a document into a folder will not copy or move it. Similarly setting permissions in the inspector will not actually change the permissions in the file system. CONTACT INFO: ------------- NAME: Shehryar Khan EMAIL: khans@serv.net WWW: http://www.serv.net/~khans PREREQUISITIES -------------- This software requires the OPENSTEP 4.2 Runtime for Windows to be installed on your machine. It WILL NOT run with earlier versions of OPENSTEP for Windows. Recommended resolution to run this application in is 1024x768 (1280x1024 even better). DOWNLOAD INFO ------------- Be sure you downloaded the correct version: Windows NT and Windows 95 with the OPENSTEP 4.2 Runtime installed NeXplorer.1.0.w.I.tar.gz INSTALLATION ------------ 1. Unpack the software distribution a. Open a "Bourne Shell" window b. change directory to location of distribution, for example, C:\temp cd C:\temp c. gunzip the distribution gunzip NeXplorer.1.0.w.I.tar.gz d. untar the resulting uncompressed file: gnutar xvf NeXplorer.1.0.w.I.tar 2. A new directory NeXplorer.app will be created a. move NeXplorer.app using the Windows Explorer to where you keep your other apps (i.e. C:\LocalApps) 3. Launching NeXplorer a. go into the NeXplorer.app folder b. double click on NeXplorer.exe to launch it FEATURES -------- * Toolbar * floating toolbar that allows you to set preferences, send email open additional fileviewers, display the inspector and quit the application * FileViewer * open up multiple resizable file viewers * browse multiple drives (local and network) * uses tooltips (little text descriptions that appear when you leave your mouse on an image for an extended period of time) to display file names * launch files or applications by double clicking on them in browser or on icon in iconPath * select file in the filebrowser by clicking it in the iconPath * select multiple files in the fileviewer and open them by double clicking on the multiple files icon in the iconPath * supports dragging of files from the iconPath into the resizable shelf * location and size of the main fileviewer panel are preserved * Shelf * resizable shelf * contents are preserved between multiple launches of the application * location and size of the shelf are preserved * select files in the fileviewer by clicking on them in the shelf * launch/open files/applications by double clicking on them in the shelf * remove items from the shelf by dragging them onto the fileviewer * move items around in the shelf * Preferences * set foreground and background colors of files in the fileviewer based on file extension * find applications on your hard disk (used by the tools inspector panel) * set the font of the fileviewer * specify whether you are an NT expert or not (this hides system folders etc..) * set your home directory * set your mail server (for sending email) with timeouts (ms) and num retries * Email * send plain text email to multiple recipients * uses the mailServer set in the preferences panel * Inspector * view file/folder attributes * compute size * set permissions * displays date when the file/folder was last changed * access control * set read/write/execute permissions * tools * set application to launch documents with (the application gets these applications from those found using the find applications subpanel in the preferences panel).
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.