NDir -- Nice Directory, version 0.8.6


NDir is a console-based tool that displays directory listings of the 
local file system. Its purpose and behaviour is similar to the well-known
`ls' on UNIX systems.

NDir can provide both a brief overview on the files and detailed
information on these files. It focuses on the needs of humans, and it's
output therefore is optimized for legibility.

Features include customizability via options (many of them are compatible with 
GNU ls), display colourizaton, a per-directory status lines with statistics 
and intelligent handling of very long file names to avoid line breaks within
the file name.

Now you can proceed to...

  * System Requirements: See below.

  * Build/installation instructions (source package): See file INSTALL

  * User documentation: There is a man page for NDir that will be installed
    together with NDir (man ndir). 
    
    If you have the source package, you can have a look at it now with 
    'less ndir.1'
    (or with any other program that displays man pages directly).

  * Release Notes: See files 'ChangeLog' and 'To do.html'

  * Further info: See below.


System Requirements
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NDir was written for the Linux operating system, but may also work
on different UNIX systems (and it does work on quite a number of
them). Generally, a POSIX compliant system will help much...

NDir has been reported working on following systems:
  i386, Linux (libc5 or glibc (=libc6))
  Alpha, Digital UNIX 4.0D (also known as Tru64 UNIX)
  Sparc, Sun Solaris
  Mips, Digital Ultrix 4.4
  i386, Microsoft(R) Windows(TM) 95/98 (with Cygnus CygWin UNIX environment)

See the file INSTALL for details.


Availability
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NDir ist available as source code, and in compiled binary form specially
for Linux. 

The main web site is:
  http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~mw/software/ndir.html


Author, Copyright, License
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This program was written by Michael Weers. 
I can be contacted via e-mail: michael.weers@gmx.de
Suggestions, complaints and bug reports are very welcome.

NDir is Copyright (c) 1997 - 2003 by Michael Weers.

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., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  

This distribution includes the "File-Date-StringUtils" library in the 
src/File-Date-StringUtils subdirectory.

Product and company names mentioned on this page or elsewhere in the
distribution may be trademarks of their respective owners.


Acknowledgements
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Many thanks to 
* Matthias Köster for his help with the C++ programming language and many 
  interesting discussions on software design and programming in general.
* Phill Zarfos for some ideas.
* Jochen Hoenicke for his help on the RPM packaging mechanism.

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