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© Copyright Robert Vasvari, 1993-2003.
Working on remote documentsBy double clicking on a file in the Remote File Viewer, you can open a document. The icon in the remote browser should show you which application this document belongs to. If the document name extension is not claimed by any app on the local machine, the default app is used. This app is set in the Global Preferences Panel. If you want to pick another app to open the selected document, you can do so by selecting the Tools tab in the Inspector Panel, and picking another app from the list. Remember not to double click executable files, because this just opens them in a editor, and you will end up seeing a lot of binary data (not pretty). However, if you know that these files are, in fact, scripts (i.e. executable text files) you can use your default editor to modify shell scripts on the remote host. IMPORTANT: You cannot use RBrowser to run executables on the remote host. For that, you need to run a shell alongside RBrowser. Once the document is opened, you can work on it just as if it were a local document. RBrowser will store and manage a local copy of your document under /tmp/your_username/RBDocuments. RBrowser monitors this temporary copy. If you save your work, RBrowser will automatically save it back to the remote host, so you will have the impression of actually working on the remote host. Keep in mind it may take a little while (usually a couple of seconds) to save back to the remote system, so do not save the document you are working on too rapidly. Once you quit RBrowser or the editor, these temporary files will be deleted. Do not try to use these for anything. If you need a local copy to keep around, use the various download facilities. |