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File list

This view lists the contents of the current directory. Depending on the setting of the short/long list flag, either only the filenames or the complete files attributes are shown.

Depending on the setting of the show/hide hidden files flag, hidden files (those beginning with '.' are either shown or not.

File list menu functions

This popup menu offers functions that operate on the selected item(s) in the file list.
Notice, that multiple selections are possible - if you hold down the SHIFT> key while clicking on an item, it will be added or removed from the set of selected items.

The functions are:

spawn
starts another fileBrowser on the current directory, or in the selected directory.

get contents
same as double click; shows the contents of the currently selected file in the contents view.

show info
show file information of the selected file. This includes file type, owner, size and access rights.

show full info
same as show info, but adds some more detail to the file type and adds group information. Since it uses Unix's 'file-command to determine the filetype, this may take a bit longer than the simple show-info.

fileIn
loads the selected file(s) into the system, by reading & evaluating smalltalk expressions from it. The file must contain valid smalltalk expressions in fileOut-format.

update
reread the directory and update the file list.

This function is normally not needed, since the fileBrowser checks the modified-time of the current directory in regular intervals, updating the list automatically. However, a manual update may be needed in certain situations (for example, if the time/dates are out of sync between NFS hosts).

execute unix command
allows execution of any unix command; a popup box allows input of the command. The output of the command is inserted in the contents view at the cursor position.

remove
remove the currently selected file(s) and/or directory(s).

rename
rename the selected file(s) or directory(s)

display long list / display short list
toggles the format in which files are shown in the file list from short to long and vice versa. The default is short. It takes a bit longer to read directories if long format is choosen.

show all files / hide hidden files
toggles display of files whose name begins with a period ".". By default, these are not shown in the list.

create directory
create a new (empty) directory.

create file
create a new (empty) file.