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1.1       root        1: .TH "XNSBROWSE" 1 "6-FEB-87" "Xerox (WRC)"
                      2: .\" $Header: xnsbrowse.n,v 1.1 87/04/01 13:56:32 ed Exp $
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: xnsbrowse - View files stored remotely on XNS file servers
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B xnsbrowse 
                      7: [
                      8: .B \-f
                      9: ] [
                     10: .B \-v
                     11: ] [
                     12: .B \-s
                     13: ] 
                     14: .B file1 ... filen
                     15: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     16: .I Xnsbrowse
                     17: retrieves the files named in \fIfile1\fR through \fIfilen\fR and pipes them
                     18: to either the viewer specified in the environment variable PAGER or
                     19: directly to \fIstdout\fR.
                     20: .PP
                     21: Only simple text files are viewable. An error will be reported if an attempt
                     22: is made to view a file of another type.
                     23: .PP
                     24: The arguments specified in \fIfile1\fR through \fIfilen\fR may be in one
                     25: of the following three forms, where host is a Clearinghouse name of the form 
                     26: \fIobject:domain:organization\fR (domain and organization are optional):
                     27: .nf
                     28:        [host]filename
                     29:        (host)filename
                     30:        host:filename
                     31: .fi
                     32: .PP
                     33: Credentials for accessing the remote service are determined either from the
                     34: environment variables XNSNAME and XNSPASSWD or, if not defined, by prompting
                     35: the user.
                     36: .PP
                     37: The possible options are:
                     38: .TP
                     39: .B -f
                     40: causes the FilingSubset Protocol to be used instead of Filing.
                     41: .TP
                     42: .B -v
                     43: causes a message to be printed as each file is retrieved.
                     44: .TP
                     45: .BI -s
                     46: causes the output to be delivered to \fIstdout\fR regardless of the value of
                     47: the environment variable PAGER.
                     48: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     49: more(1), xnscreds(1N)
                     50: .br
                     51: Filing Protocol, \s8XSIS\s0 108605 (May 1986)
                     52: .SH BUGS
                     53: There should be a way to pass other command line switches to the program
                     54: specified in PAGER directly.
                     55: .SH AUTHORS
                     56: Ed Flint
                     57: 

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