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Dev-Editor is a simple CGI based editor written in Perl and licensed under the
-terms of the Artistic License, which allows remote changes to files and
+terms of the Artistic License 2.0, which allows remote changes to files and
directory structures on a web server. That's useful if you aren't able to access
the files on your homepage directly, for example if you are on holiday.
+Features
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+
+- Browsing through directory structures
+- Viewing text files
+- Editing text files
+- Removing files and directories
+- Moving/renaming files and directories
+- Copying files and directories
+- Creating new files and directories
+- Executing a HTTP download of a file
+- Uploading files to the server via HTTP
+- Changing permissions (chmod) and group (chgrp) of files and directories (on
+ Unix systems)
+- Unpacking some types of archive files (Perl module Archive::Extract is
+ required - core module since Perl 5.10, I guess)
+
Installation
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create a sub directory for Dev-Editor.
Then, you have to change the first line of devedit.pl: Just replace
/usr/bin/perl by the path to your Perl interpreter.
-If you are on a UNIX based system, you have to set devedit.pl as executable
+If you are on a Unix based system, you have to set devedit.pl as executable
(chmod 755 in most cases).
You will also need to configure Dev-Editor. See the next section for details.