Xplore -- A Powerful Explorer-Like Motif File Manager
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Copyright (c) 1996-2001 by Albert Graef

Parts of this program are derived from xfm 1.3.2 and moxfm 0.99,

Copyright (c) 1990-1996 by Simon Marlow, Albert Graef, Oliver Mai
Copyright (c) 1994 by Robert Vogelgesang (shell autodetection)
Copyright (c) 1995 by Juan D. Martin (magic headers)

and from xfsm 1.89,

Copyright (c) 1993-1996 by Robert Gasch

(For the latter, please see the copyright notice in mnttable.h.)

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, 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.

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This is release 1.1 of xplore, a powerful and highly configurable Motif file
manager with an Explorer-like user interface.

Xplore owes much to xfm, the popular (albeit a bit dated ;-) X file manager
written by Simon Marlow and myself, and moxfm, a very nice Motif port of xfm
with many additional features, which has been developed by Oliver Mai.
However, drawing from the experiences with xfm, I redesigned and reimplemented
this one from scratch, and in fact xplore incorporates only very little of the
original xfm/moxfm source code.

You'll need the Xpm library and Motif 2.x for compiling this program. Please
refer to the file INSTALL for detailed installation instructions. Precompiled
binaries in a variety of formats are available from xplore's homepage at

	http://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/~ag/xplore

which also provides the latest information and sources. (At the time of this
writing, only Linux binaries are available, as this is currently the only
system with Motif 2.x I have access to. If you can contribute binaries for
other systems, please let me know.)

I have used various versions of this program under Linux 2.0.18-2.4.4 with
XFree 3.x/4.x and different Motif 2.x versions for several years now, and so I
believe that the latest release (which has been tested on SuSE Linux 7.x with
OpenMotif 2.1) is fairly stable and bug-free. The remaining major issue is
probably portability, since xplore _really_ requires Motif 2.x. I am hoping on
LessTif here, which already supports quite a few platforms, but at this time
it still lacks some of the Motif 2.x widgets required by xplore.

As always, I would like to thank the many brave xplore testers out there on
the net for their bug reports and other inputs which helped a lot to improve
the current version. Please send me any bug fixes and other patches necessary
for porting xplore to other platforms, so that I can incorporate them in
future releases. Questions, suggestions, bug reports and all other kinds of
contributions are also welcome.

Enjoy!

Aug 2001

Albert Graef (ag@muwiinfa.geschichte.uni-mainz.de)
Department of Musicinformatics
Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Germany