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From: Christoff Snijders <hjcs@portal.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Want a File Manager
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 16:41:33 +0000
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> Dave Cowl wrote:
> >
> > Greetings.
> >
> > I would like a file manager to do simple drag and drop of files to
> > move the files around. Something like the Sun file manager would
> > be good.
> 
> Not much of an imitation, but see xfm in the ports collection.
> `grep xfm /usr/ports/INDEX' is always a good place to start.
> 
> --
> - Jordan Hubbard
>   President, FreeBSD Project


Do you mean xdtm?  If so, be warned that I could not get it to run
reliably--it core-dumps.  Every time.  However, having said that, this
could have more to do with me than with xdtm (though I'm damned if I
know what).  Any similar experiences?

-- 
Christoff Snijders
hjcs@portal.ca