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<TITLE>vfu - VFU is console file manager for UNIX/Linux</TITLE>
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	<LI><A HREF="#name">NAME</A></LI>
	<LI><A HREF="#synopsis">SYNOPSIS</A></LI>
	<LI><A HREF="#description">DESCRIPTION</A></LI>
	<LI><A HREF="#options">OPTIONS</A></LI>
	<LI><A HREF="#configuration">CONFIGURATION</A></LI>
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		<LI><A HREF="#location of vfu.conf">Location of vfu.conf</A></LI>
		<LI><A HREF="#other files location">Other files location</A></LI>
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	<LI><A HREF="#vfu.conf">VFU.CONF</A></LI>
	<LI><A HREF="#distribution">DISTRIBUTION</A></LI>
	<LI><A HREF="#files">FILES</A></LI>
	<LI><A HREF="#todo">TODO</A></LI>
	<LI><A HREF="#bugs">BUGS</A></LI>
	<LI><A HREF="#author">AUTHOR</A></LI>
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<H1><A NAME="name">NAME</A></H1>
<P>vfu - VFU is console (text-mode) file manager for UNIX/Linux</P>
<P>
<HR>
<H1><A NAME="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</A></H1>
<P>vfu [options]</P>
<P>
<HR>
<H1><A NAME="description">DESCRIPTION</A></H1>
<P><STRONG>vfu</STRONG> has following features:</P>
<PRE>
 - Fast one-key commands
 - Extended completition and wildcard expansion
 - Directory tree with sizes (incl. sizes cache)
 - File-type colorization (extension and type)
 - Archives support (TAR, TGZ, BZ2, and many more)
 - Simple FTP support through archive-like interface
 - Internal text/hex file viewer and editor (optional)
 - Extensive user-defined external support/utils
 - Regular expressions selection and search
 - Multiple file masks
 - and much more...</PRE>
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<HR>
<H1><A NAME="options">OPTIONS</A></H1>
<PRE>
 -h
prints help for command line options</PRE>
<PRE>
 -i
runs vfu in interactive mode (can be used with \-d)</PRE>
<PRE>
 -d path
changes working directory to `path'</PRE>
<PRE>
 -r
rebuild directory tree</PRE>
<PRE>
 -t
view directory tree only</PRE>
<P>These options are for using vfu in partial non-interactive mode.</P>
<PRE>
 example: vfu -d /usr/local -i</PRE>
<P>
<HR>
<H1><A NAME="configuration">CONFIGURATION</A></H1>
<P><STRONG>vfu</STRONG>
configuration is divided in two parts (files):</P>
<P><STRONG>vfu.conf</STRONG></P>
<P>This file contains configuration for external editor and pager, favorite
directories, file-type colorization. This is plain text file which format
is described below. vfu only reads vfu.conf, it never writes in it!</P>
<P><STRONG>vfu.options</STRONG></P>
<P>This file contains all Options/Toggles which can be changed from inside
vfu -- Options menu. vfu.options is binary file and is overwritten on
vfu exit or on change option event! Deleting this file will reset vfu
toggles to default values. vfu.options is not portable between vfu
versions!</P>
<P>
<H2><A NAME="location of vfu.conf">Location of vfu.conf</A></H2>
<P><STRONG>vfu.conf</STRONG> can be placed as any of:</P>
<PRE>
 $HOME/.vfu/vfu.conf
</PRE>
<PRE>

 $HOME/$RC_PREFIX/vfu/vfu.conf  (if $RC_PREFIX is exported)</PRE>
<PRE>

 /etc/vfu.conf</PRE>
<PRE>

 /usr/local/etc/vfu.conf</PRE>
<PRE>

 /usr/local/vfu.conf</PRE>
<P>
<H2><A NAME="other files location">Other files location</A></H2>
<P>All other files including vfu.options are placed in:</P>
<PRE>
 $HOME/.vfu/
</PRE>
<PRE>

 $HOME/$RC_PREFIX/vfu/</PRE>
<P>What is <STRONG><CODE>$RC_PREFIX</CODE></STRONG> and why to use it? Some more information for
this can be found in the <STRONG>CONFIG</STRONG> file which is supplied with
<STRONG>vfu</STRONG> package.</P>
<P>
<HR>
<H1><A NAME="vfu.conf">VFU.CONF</A></H1>
<P>This is a sample copy of vfu.conf with appropriate comments:</P>
<P>
<HR>
<H1><A NAME="distribution">DISTRIBUTION</A></H1>
<P>It is supposed that only source packages will be distributed.
However sometimes binary packages will be released, but not often.
VFU packages are named in this way:</P>
<PRE>
 vfu-X.xx.src.tgz
</PRE>
<PRE>

source package for version X.xx</PRE>
<PRE>
 vfu-X.xx.bin.platform.tgz</PRE>
<P>binary package for version X.xx for `platform' platform</P>
<P>examples:</P>
<PRE>
 vfu-4.00.src.tgz</PRE>
<PRE>
 vfu-4.00.bin.linux.glibc.tgz</PRE>
<PRE>
 vfu-4.00.bin.linux.libc5.tgz</PRE>
<PRE>
 vfu-4.00.bin.dos.tgz</PRE>
<P>All packages are TAR+GZIP .tgz, bz2 and zip are available on request.</P>
<P><STRONG>NOTE</STRONG>:
Always check HISTORY document -- it often
contains some usefull notes!</P>
<P>
<HR>
<H1><A NAME="files">FILES</A></H1>
<PRE>
 $HOME/$RC_PREFIX/vfu/vfu.conf</PRE>
<P>configuration, explained above</P>
<PRE>
 $HOME/$RC_PREFIX/vfu/vfu.options</PRE>
<P>options, explained above</P>
<PRE>
 $HOME/$RC_PREFIX/vfu/vfu.history</PRE>
<P>contains history lines</P>
<PRE>
 $HOME/$RC_PREFIX/vfu/vfu.tree</PRE>
<P>contains directory tree</P>
<P>If you don't set $RC_PREFIX configuration files are:</P>
<PRE>
 $HOME/.vfu/vfu.conf
 $HOME/.vfu/vfu.options
 $HOME/.vfu/vfu.history
 $HOME/.vfu/vfu.tree</PRE>
<P>
<HR>
<H1><A NAME="todo">TODO</A></H1>
<P>see the TODO file</P>
<P>
<HR>
<H1><A NAME="bugs">BUGS</A></H1>
<P>unknown</P>
<P>
<HR>
<H1><A NAME="author">AUTHOR</A></H1>
<PRE>
 Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski &quot;Cade&quot;
 &lt;cade@bis.bg&gt; &lt;cade@noxrun.com&gt;
 <A HREF="https://cade.noxrun.com/projects/vfu">https://cade.noxrun.com/projects/vfu</A></PRE>

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