The Directorywindows

The most important part of the user interface of Filer are the two large directorywindows at left and right margin of the screen. Inside them the directories, files and softlinks of the particular directory are shown. Directories and softlinks will be printed in black, if you haven't changed the color palette, files in white. Leftmost the name is displayed, right to it the protection flags, the entry type, the date of the last write access and rightmost the special informations. That's of course only true if you are using the default (refer to ). Filer uses the following short form for the different entry types :

• DI: Directory

• HL: Hardlink (refering to a file or a directory)

• SL: Softlink

• FI: File

Special informations mean the note of a file (in quotes), if it has one, or the reference of a softlink (with leading ``'').