The Fred's Own Filemanager (fof) program is not, strictly speaking, a standard graphical filemanager. This is more a frontend to several Unix commands. The basic commands used are the following ones :
These commands, for security concerns must reside in one of your PATH directories. This is generally the case. Many fof options rely on the GNU versions of these programs but if you don't use these options, fof might work with non-GNU tools.
But Fof is aloso a highly customizable tool (well, not as customizable as emacs but this is just a start :-), you can associate other programs with new menu entries, specify default view & edit commands for each file type and so on.
The main objective of the program is to provide a powerfull user interface, with contextual menus, drag and drop, muliple windows and many more features to the basic Unix commands.
This program is based on the motif toolkit but is aimed to be fully Lesstif compliant (see the eXode section). The current development version depends on the 2.0 release of Motif and the only binaries available are :
1) fof-x.yz-status-i386LinuxELF-shared.tar.gz You need Motif 2.0 - ELF to use this release what ldd says about this binary release : libXm.so.2 => libXpm.so.4 => libICE.so.6 => libSM.so.6 => libXmu.so.6 => libXt.so.6 => libXext.so.6 => libX11.so.6 => libc.so.5 => 2) fof-x.yz-status-i386LinuxElf-static.tar.gz what ldd says about this binary release : libXpm.so.4 => libICE.so.6 => libSM.so.6 => libXmu.so.6 => libXt.so.6 => libXext.so.6 => libX11.so.6 => libc.so.5 => The sources are also available in the archive : fof-x.yz-status-sources.tar.gz
See the "how to compile" section to use the sources distribution.
NOTE : In the current release, the source files aren't easily portables on non-Linux platforms excepted Full GNU glibc1 compliant plateforms.
Here is a summary of what you'll find in fof :
eXode is a set of integrated tools (with a common and coherent interface) that allow you to manage a Unix System. The tools are distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Fof is a precursor of the eXode desktop and will evolve as a standard client. But it will need several modifications to follow the eXode specifications so a stable final release of fof will be proposed independently.
For more informations about eXode, consult the eXode site at : http://www.simplicity.net/exode (may be outdated - wait for announces in comp.windows.x.announce and comp.os.linux.announce)
This is a public BETA release of Fof, a Motif filemanager for Linux under the X Window System (C) Copyright 1996-1997 Fred Pesch This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. -- Fred Pesch -- eXode desktop project coordinator