| Name : DoIt
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| Version : 20181215.2c7e897
| Vendor : obs://build_opensuse_org/home:rogeroberholtzer
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| Release : 23.2
| Date : 2024-09-09 11:30:48
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| Group : Development/Tools/Other
| Source RPM : DoIt-20181215.2c7e897-23.2.src.rpm
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| Size : 0.27 MB
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| Packager : (none)
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| Summary : Yet another remote-execution daemon for Windows
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Description :
It seems to be quite common in large-company environments for employees to be given a Windows machine on their desktop, and for there to be Unix server machines elsewhere in the building that they can connect to (either using Telnet or SSH, or a Windows X server such as Exceed). Quite often there is also a dual-protocol file server that allows the Windows machines and the Unix machines to share at least some of their file systems.
If you\'re predominantly a Unix user and you find yourself in this sort of environment, it can be quite inconvenient. Picture the scene: at your Unix shell prompt, you\'ve just tab-completed your way down a ten-level path name in one of these shared file systems, in search of a file that someone told you you needed to read. When you find it, it turns out to be a .DOC Word document.
Clearly the last thing you want to do at this point is to bring up a local Windows Explorer, and click your way right down the same ten-level directory path to get back to the same file. What you really want is a little utility, perhaps called wf (for \"Windows File\"), which would automatically translate the pathname from Unix syntax into Windows, automatically contact your Windows machine, and ask it to launch the file with whatever viewer program seemed appropriate.
This is the main problem that DoIt solves. It has a few other handy features too, but the above is mainly what it\'s for.
Here is the complete list of features that DoIt provides, so that you can tell whether it will be useful to you before downloading.
- Start a GUI program (such as Notepad, or Word, or Excel or whatever) on the Windows machine.
- Start a command-line program (such as a C compiler) on the Windows machine, and send all its output back to the Unix client machine to be displayed on stdout. (Note that DoIt does not currently support two-way communication: the program sends its output back to the Unix box, but the Unix box can\'t send further input to the program.)
- Open a Windows file using the ShellExecute function. This is equivalent to double-clicking on the file in Explorer: it opens the file using whatever application Windows has configured for files of that type.
- Perform automatic path-name translation on the above, so that you can just type \"wf myfile.doc\". DoIt will automatically turn this into a fully-qualified Unix path name, then feed it through a set of user-defined path name translations, and end up with a Windows path name that accesses the same file.
- Ask the Windows system to open its default web browser and visit a specified URL. (This is particularly useful if you can\'t make your X server cut and paste effectively to Windows.)
- Place arbitrary text in the clipboard of the Windows machine, and also fetch text out of the Windows clipboard back to the client. (Again, this is particularly useful if your cut and paste between X and Windows doesn\'t work properly.)
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