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1. Introduction
Hi and congratulations with usage of VTfm – the Norton Commander Style Video Terminals file manager! It was developed by me especially for DEC VT-series terminals and OpenVMS operating system for DEC VAX, Alpha and Intel Itanium (IA64) architectures. Also you can use VTfm with terminal emulators, which can emulate DEC VT-series terminals (PowerTerm, for example).
VTfm is a freeware open source program, which developed on DEC C V6.0 language and uses the following OpenVMS facilities:
LIB (RTL Library), RMS (Record Management Services), SMG (RTL Screen Management), STR (RTL String Manipulation), SYS (System Services), TPU (Text Processing Utility).
1.1 Current features
Working technique is similar to well known Norton Commander program, i.e. navigate through disk directory content with use of <Up/Down> arrow or <Next/Prev> keys and enter into subdirectory and back with use of <Return> (<Enter>) key. Select and UnSelect files by wildcard mask with use of <Sel/Rem> keys or manually with use of <Ins> key. Files filtering in directory panels by wildcard mask with use of <Find> key. One touch View and Edit file content with use of integrated TPU editor. Copy, Rename, Move and Delete disk directory trees. Works with OpenVMS Extended File Specifications on ODS-5 volumes. Supports DEC VT-terminal modes with more than 24´80 rows/columns. Direct going to any disk directory in the OpenVMS cluster. Supports logicals when GotoDirectory, Copy, Rename and Move files (SYS$LOGIN, SYS$MANAGER, SYS$SYSTEM, SYS$COMMON, SYS$SCRATCH, SYS$DISK etc.). Rotating directory panels from the default LEFT/RIGHT to UP/DOWN orientation and back for view long file specifications. Switching view of file size from blocks to bytes and back. Command line is up to 4K characters (with OpenVMS V8.0 and later). Environment file for storing environment information when exit VTfm.
1.2 Current restrictions
supports only LOCAL or CLUSTERWIDE disk devices when GotoDirectory, Copy, Rename, Move or Delete (if need to use NODE specification use VTfm command line); does not support "*", "%", "?", "[.", ".]", "[-", ".-" and "..." in directory specification when GotoDirectory, Copy, Rename or Move; does not open any archive files (use correspondent utility in VTfm command line).
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