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As you see, this screen consists of two directory panels: left and right.
When you work with VTfm, the top highlighted (yellow in our example) line of each panel shows the current default directory and the current files filter wildcard mask for this panel. This line called a panel header or directory line.
Lower the panel header you can see a directory files list where current file is highlighted with the file bar (cyan in our example). At top of files list VTfm shows files with DIR extension which also marked with the first slash “/” symbol.
Lower the directory files list there is a statistics line, where you can see brief information about current file of directory panel. If current file is a directory then VTfm shows it type: /SUB-DIR/, /UP-DIR/ or /ROOT-DIR/. If current file is not a directory then VTfm shows it size in blocks (the default) or bytes. In both cases VTfm also shows the current file creation date and time.
The next line of VTfm screen is a command line, which contains a cursor (red block in our example) and starts with a prompt, which consists of:
Command line can contain up to 255 characters for OpenVMS of versions prior 8.0 and up to 4K characters for OpenVMS of version 8.0 and later.
The bottom line of the screen is a menu line, which contains VTfm operation keys description:
11 GotoVMS - <F11> enter to DCL environment, 12 GotoDir - <F12> direct going to some disk directory, 13 View - <F13> view the content of current file, 14 Edit - <F14> edit the existent or create new text file, 15 Copy - <Help> copy a current or selected files, 16 RenMov - <Do> rename/move a current or selected files, 17 MkDir - <F17> make a directory, 18 Delete - <F18> delete a current or selected files, 19 FKey - <F19> quick help (brief description of other function keys), 20 Quit - <F20> quit VTfm.
The following sections of this guide discuss the actions of these operation keys.
3.1 Navigation through directory panels
For navigation through directory panels VTfm uses the technique, which is similar to well known Norton Commander program, i.e. to navigate through disk directory content you can use Down/Up arrow keys (for move to the next or previous file) or Next/Prev keys (for move to the next or previous panel page).
For move to BOTTOM/TOP of panel press <PF1>+<Next> or <PF1>+<Prev> keys.
For switch to another panel simply press <Tab> key.
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