Sophie: fsv-0.9-16mdv2010.0 i586

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>Menus</A
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>This section documents the various items accessible from <I
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>fsv</I
>'s top menu bar.</P
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><SPAN
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>File</SPAN
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><SPAN
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>Change root...</SPAN
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>Restarts <I
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>fsv</I
> in a different root directory. This brings up a directory selection dialog, and once a directory is specified, <I
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>fsv</I
> will perform another scan and generate new file system geometry accordingly.</P
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>Exit</SPAN
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>Quits the program.</P
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>Vis</SPAN
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>This menu allows you to choose between <I
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>fsv</I
>'s various visualization modes. Each of these is a different approach to representing a file system. When you switch from one mode to another, the camera will automatically home in on the same node it was looking at before.</P
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>MapV</SPAN
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>Each node is a block which sits on top of its parent directory. (Viewed from above, it is basically a Venn diagram). The area covered by each block is proportional to the size of the corresponding file system node.</P
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>Nodes are separated into two categories: platforms and leaves. Platforms are directories which have been expanded for viewing; everything else is a leaf, which sits on some platform. The platforms are connected by branches, reflecting the file system's directory structure. The height of a leaf node indicates its size.</P
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>Colors</SPAN
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>This menu controls how colors are assigned to nodes.</P
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><SPAN
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>By node type</SPAN
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>Assigns colors according to each node's file system entity type, which can be one of the following:</P
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><I
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>Directory</I
> - Also known as a "folder"</P
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><I
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>Regular file</I
> - Most nodes are of this type</P
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><LI
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><I
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>Symbolic link</I
> - These just point to another file</P
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><LI
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><I
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>Named pipe (FIFO)</I
> - Very rare</P
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><I
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>Network socket</I
> - Even rarer</P
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><I
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>Character device</I
> - Found in <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/dev</TT
></P
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><LI
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><I
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>Block device</I
> - Also in <TT
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>/dev</TT
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><I
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>Unknown</I
> - ???</P
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>By timestamp</SPAN
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>Assigns colors from a continuous spectrum representing time. The default setup employs a rainbow spectrum, coloring new files red, somewhat older files green, much older files indigo/violet, and so forth. Nodes which are too old (or too new) to occur within the spectrum's time range are shown darkened.</P
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>By wildcards</SPAN
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>Assigns colors using a set of wildcard patterns. Each pattern is associated with a color, and may use the <TT
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>?</TT
> and <TT
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>*</TT
> characters to match against filenames. (An example would be <TT
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>*.html</TT
>). If a node's filename matches a pattern, then the color of that pattern is used to draw the node. If a filename does not match any patterns, a default color is used.</P
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>By convention, a <TT
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>?</TT
> (question mark) matches any single character, and a <TT
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>*</TT
> (asterisk) matches any group of characters. To give an example, <TT
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>?pple</TT
> will match against <TT
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>apple</TT
>, but not <TT
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>snapple</TT
>. Alternately, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>*pple</TT
> will match <TT
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>pple</TT
>, <TT
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>apple</TT
>, <TT
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>snapple</TT
>, and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>thebigapple</TT
>. Neither of these patterns, however, will match <TT
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>appleseed</TT
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>This feature may be used to assign colors to files based on the filename extension. A pattern of (for example) <TT
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>*.jpg</TT
> will against all files having the <TT
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>.jpg</TT
> extension in their names (which, by convention, should be JPEG image files).</P
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>Note: </B
>Matching is performed on a case-sensitive basis. Thus, the pattern <TT
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>*.jpg</TT
> is not the same as <TT
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>*.JPG</TT
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>Setup...</SPAN
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>Brings up a setup dialog for the various color modes. [The dialog has yet to be documented]</P
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>Contents...</SPAN
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>Launches a help browser.</P
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>Gives authorship and version information for the program.</P
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