Re: Lightweight file viewer?
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 06:20:12AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 21:58, stan wrote:
> > On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 10:11:56PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote:
> > > stan wrote:
> > > >I need a lightweight file viewer for use on a dedicated machien that will
> > > >be used by users who have only ever used windoze. here is what I need.
> > > >
> > > >1. view only (no edits).
> > > >2. must be able to change fiel being viewd.
> > > >3. must be able to do simple searches.
> > > >
> > > >Sugestions?
> > > >
> > >
> > > less? mozilla? any web browser? any editor with the files 644 and not
> > > owned by the user? What exactly have you considered and found lacking?
> >
> > I started out looking at web browsers, but they are way to heavy, and
> > powerful for what I want. The files need to be writable bu the user that's
> > runing the viewr, so I need something that has a view only mode like vi.
> > But it need sto be easy enough for a windoze user to use.
>
> You say "view only" and "need to be writable bu the user that's
> runing the view". Those look to be contradictory goals.
Not really.
The "user" in question is dedicated to the task, Taht is the task that
collects the data runs as user "alarms", as a daemon, and writes the
logfiles.
The same user is autologed in to a "traped" X session with no posibility of
starting any other task, or spawning a shell. I will autostart this viewer
in his .xinitrc to allow reading of these files.
Make sesnse?
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