                    FolderViews - Icon based file manager
                         Written by Benjamin Cooley

                      Folderviews is now Public Domain!

Description:

FolderViews displays directories in an MDI Window with
the ability to group various types of files in separate
subwindows.  Folderviews also may be run with a specific
directory or a wildcard as a parameter.

Folderviews stores the setup for each directory, after
the windows in the directory have been arranged, in its
directory database files within its own directory.  If
a change is made to a folder view directory window, and the
window is then closed, the current setup for that window
is automatically saved.

New groups can be 'culled' from the other files group
by selecting the 'New Subwindow' menu item, then entering
in the new group name, and the wildcards for the group.
Standard wildcards are accepted (i.e. *.BAT *.TXT etc.)
plus you can use the '-' character to explicitly exclude
files of a given type (i.e. -*.BAK would exclude all BAK
file from a group).

FolderViews may also have predefined directory window setups
for various popular applications, though in this version none
are included.  To set up an application default setup,
arrange the groups in a window the way you want them, then
rename the folder information file indicated in the FLDRVIEW.INI
file for that directory to the directory name, but leaving
the extention the same, and place the file in the FOLDERVIEW
directory.  When the user attempts to view a directory that
has not been setup yet, FolderViews will find the default
setup file, and use it to display the directory.

Folderviews is especially usefull for quickly displaying
groups of .WAV or other groups of file extentions.  To
add a FolderView display to the program manager, just add
a new program item like this..

Description: Wave Files
Command Line: c:\fldrview\fldrview.exe c:\windows\*.wav

PUBLIC DOMAIN:

This version of FolderViews is UNFINISHED, as this brief
documentation indicates. I have made FolderViews PUBLIC
DOMAIN, which means anyone can do anything to it they
wish, including adding to it, selling it, publishing it
as shareware, or whatever.  It is, of course, completely
unethical to rename the program and just sell it as is,
but it's your decision. I no longer have the time, but I
still would very much like to see this program published
someday.  If you do decide to publish an expanded version
of this program, please include my name and FolderViews
in the About credits.

Please give a poor orphaned program a home.

Installation:

Just copy the files from the zip to any directory, and run
the program.  FolderViews will create a subdirectory called
FOLDERS within that directory to hold the setup files for
the folders you display in Windows.  

Compiling FolderViews:

Just run BCW or BC and compile the project.  My BorlandC
directory is BC, so you may have to rename the lib and
include paths in the Options|Directories menu to BORLANDC
for it to compile correctly.
