# Introduction

1. What is Worker
2. Systemrequirements
3. Legal informations
4. Author

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### 1. What is Worker ?

Worker is a filemanager for the UNIX X-Window-system.
Directories will be presented in two independent listviews (like Midnight Commander), in doing so many additional important information will be shown. For working with the files you easily have to select the file with the mouse or with the keyboard and perform an action on it by using a hotkey or by hitting a button.
There is no restriction of the number of functions. Any external program can be used for working with files.

Furthermore Worker offers a real filetype-recognition (the focus is set on the content and not on the fileextension (but this is possible too)), the underlying database can be easily enlarged. Different actions can be defined for every filetype for example what should happen if you perform a doubleclick on a file or how this filetype should be displayed.

Some advantages (in my opinion):

- GUI
- Graphic configuration
  can be changed at runtime.
- Easy adding of new functions.
- Easy addaption to other languages.

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### 2. System requirements

- A running UNIX-Sytem
- A running X-Window-System
- C++-Compiler (GCC recommended)

I have tried to observe POSIX.1, because of this a POSIX system increases the possibility to compile the program.

I developed Worker using the following configuration:

- Slackware 7.0
  - GNU/Linux 2.2.13
  - libc6 (glibc2.1)
  - X11R6
  - GCC-Compiler (egcs)

Worker was succesfully tested on the following systems:

- GNU/Linux
  - 2.2.5
  - libc6
  - X11R6
  - GCC-Compiler (egcs)
- Sun Sparcstation
  - SunOS 5.6
  - GCC-Compiler
- Solaris 2.6
- FreeBSD 2.2.2

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### 3. Legal informations

Worker is published under the GNU General Public License. The license should be a part of this archive.
The author is not responsible for any error or damage that occurs by using this program.

(C) Ralf Hoffmann

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### 4. Author

Worker was developed by Ralf Hoffmann.

If you have any suggestions or bugreports, please feel free to email them to me. Especially in the case of bugs I would like you to please mail a detailed report to me.

Homepage: http://www.boomerangsworld.de/worker

E-Mail: Ralf Hoffmann <ralf@boomerangsworld.de>

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