.TH "XNSBROWSE" 1 "6-FEB-87" "Xerox (WRC)" .\" $Header: xnsbrowse.n,v 1.1 87/04/01 13:56:32 ed Exp $ .SH NAME xnsbrowse - View files stored remotely on XNS file servers .SH SYNOPSIS .B xnsbrowse [ .B \-f ] [ .B \-v ] [ .B \-s ] .B file1 ... filen .SH DESCRIPTION .I Xnsbrowse retrieves the files named in \fIfile1\fR through \fIfilen\fR and pipes them to either the viewer specified in the environment variable PAGER or directly to \fIstdout\fR. .PP Only simple text files are viewable. An error will be reported if an attempt is made to view a file of another type. .PP The arguments specified in \fIfile1\fR through \fIfilen\fR may be in one of the following three forms, where host is a Clearinghouse name of the form \fIobject:domain:organization\fR (domain and organization are optional): .nf [host]filename (host)filename host:filename .fi .PP Credentials for accessing the remote service are determined either from the environment variables XNSNAME and XNSPASSWD or, if not defined, by prompting the user. .PP The possible options are: .TP .B -f causes the FilingSubset Protocol to be used instead of Filing. .TP .B -v causes a message to be printed as each file is retrieved. .TP .BI -s causes the output to be delivered to \fIstdout\fR regardless of the value of the environment variable PAGER. .SH "SEE ALSO" more(1), xnscreds(1N) .br Filing Protocol, \s8XSIS\s0 108605 (May 1986) .SH BUGS There should be a way to pass other command line switches to the program specified in PAGER directly. .SH AUTHORS Ed Flint