Tux Commander version 0.4.101
Copyright (c) 2004 JASSER Software
Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek@users.sourceforge.net>
http://tuxcmd.sourceforge.net

Note: Please see the homepage for further details

Introduction
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Tux Commander is open-source file manager with 2 panels side by side written
for GTK2. It is developed using Borland Kylix 3 Open Edition (Object Pascal
language). The main goal of this project is to create powerful user-friendly
file manager for Linux. Some functions are (or will be) inspired by famous
Total Commander. This project was started due to lack of quality mc-like file
manager using any version of GTK.

This project uses Pascal bindings from the project gtk2 for pascal, designed for
Free Pascal Compiler and Borland Kylix. You will need to make a CVS snapshot or
use our provided snapshot if you want to compile Tux Commander. It was decided
tuxcmd should be independent from any external libraries, the only thing you
need is proper GTK+ 2.xx installation, any other links are made by dynamic
library loading.

Unlike other open-source projects, the main distribution form of this project is
the binary executable, because Kylix compiler doesn't make any optimizations for
target systems, as gcc does. The other limitation of Kylix is that it is
currently designed only for Linux systems and probably will never support any
other Unix-based systems (for example FreeBSD, Mac OS X/Darwin).

At this time, tuxcmd is actively developed only by me (tbzatek) without any
sources in the Sourceforge's CVS. It is developed in my free time and I cannot
guarantee flexible responses to bugfixes and new features, the development
progress could be little slow then and might be interrupted for a few weeks
(mostly due to my study). It would be possible to commit the sources to CVS if
somebody wants, so then everybody could be able to participate with the project
(this mainly comprises development of plugins). After I finish a basic VFS
interface, the developers will be able to make a contribution to the project
through the plugin form (please see the Development section on the homepage for
more informations).

I will appreciate any support, if you find a bug or some inconsistency, please
notice me. There is a wishlist on the Development page, please take a look at
it if there is your feature before you ask. Feel free to test this app and write
some feedback. I could accept any mails even in Czech!

Install
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For installation and compilation instructions please follow INSTALL file.


Testing
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Tux Commander needs testing, I would be pleased if you will send any comments
or bug reports. When sending a bug report, please run tuxcmd with parameter
--debug and attach the log to the e-mail.

