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- FolderViews - Icon based file manager
- Written by Benjamin Cooley
-
- Folderviews is now Public Domain!
-
- Description:
-
- FolderViews displays directories in an MDI Window with
- the ability to group various types of files in separate
- subwindows. Folderviews also may be run with a specific
- directory or a wildcard as a parameter.
-
- Folderviews stores the setup for each directory, after
- the windows in the directory have been arranged, in its
- directory database files within its own directory. If
- a change is made to a folder view directory window, and the
- window is then closed, the current setup for that window
- is automatically saved.
-
- New groups can be 'culled' from the other files group
- by selecting the 'New Subwindow' menu item, then entering
- in the new group name, and the wildcards for the group.
- Standard wildcards are accepted (i.e. *.BAT *.TXT etc.)
- plus you can use the '-' character to explicitly exclude
- files of a given type (i.e. -*.BAK would exclude all BAK
- file from a group).
-
- FolderViews may also have predefined directory window setups
- for various popular applications, though in this version none
- are included. To set up an application default setup,
- arrange the groups in a window the way you want them, then
- rename the folder information file indicated in the FLDRVIEW.INI
- file for that directory to the directory name, but leaving
- the extention the same, and place the file in the FOLDERVIEW
- directory. When the user attempts to view a directory that
- has not been setup yet, FolderViews will find the default
- setup file, and use it to display the directory.
-
- Folderviews is especially usefull for quickly displaying
- groups of .WAV or other groups of file extentions. To
- add a FolderView display to the program manager, just add
- a new program item like this..
-
- Description: Wave Files
- Command Line: c:\fldrview\fldrview.exe c:\windows\*.wav
-
- PUBLIC DOMAIN:
-
- This version of FolderViews is UNFINISHED, as this brief
- documentation indicates. I have made FolderViews PUBLIC
- DOMAIN, which means anyone can do anything to it they
- wish, including adding to it, selling it, publishing it
- as shareware, or whatever. It is, of course, completely
- unethical to rename the program and just sell it as is,
- but it's your decision. I no longer have the time, but I
- still would very much like to see this program published
- someday. If you do decide to publish an expanded version
- of this program, please include my name and FolderViews
- in the About credits.
-
- Please give a poor orphaned program a home.
-
- Installation:
-
- Just copy the files from the zip to any directory, and run
- the program. FolderViews will create a subdirectory called
- FOLDERS within that directory to hold the setup files for
- the folders you display in Windows.
-
- Compiling FolderViews:
-
- Just run BCW or BC and compile the project. My BorlandC
- directory is BC, so you may have to rename the lib and
- include paths in the Options|Directories menu to BORLANDC
- for it to compile correctly.
-