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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-ReadMe for Dev-Editor 3.0 (CVS)
-===============================
+ReadMe for Dev-Editor 3.2
+=========================
 
 Description
 -----------
@@ -9,6 +9,23 @@ terms of the Artistic License, 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
+--------
+
+- 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)
+
 Installation
 ------------
 
@@ -17,7 +34,7 @@ are able to execute scripts (in most cases, this is "cgi-bin"). I suggest to
 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.
 
@@ -44,6 +61,9 @@ httproot                 This is the equivalent HTTP URL to the root directory.
                          It's just used for visual output, so it doesn't need to
                          be correct.
 
+startdir                 Here you may define the default directory Dev-Editor
+                         opens on start.
+
 max_file_size            Here you may define a maximum size for files (Bytes).
                          If the user wants to view or edit a file larger than
                          this defined size, Dev-Editor denies file access (but
@@ -82,12 +102,25 @@ use_gmt                  Set this option to 1 if you want to use Greenwich Mean
                          Time (GMT/UTC) in directory listing and in the About
                          dialogue instead of the local time.
 
+hide_dot_files           Set this option to 1 if you want to hide files or
+                         directories beginning with a dot (e.g. ".htaccess") in
+                         directory listing.
+                         The files are just hidden in the directory listing,
+                         you can still access them typing the name into the
+                         "Go to directory/file" box.
+
 forbidden                Specify a list of filenames the user is not allowed to
                          access. The filenames have to be relative to the
                          virtual root directory (they must also begin with a
                          slash) and have to be separated by space characters. If
                          a filename contains space characters, you have to put
-                         it into double quotation marks ("/filename").
+                         it into double quotation marks ("/file name").
+
+disable_commands         Specify a list of commands the user is not allowed to
+                         execute. The commands have to be separated by space
+                         characters.
+                         If you add "@write" to the list, all writing commands
+                         (for example edit, copy, rename etc.) get disabled.
 
 userconf_file            Specifies the path to a file which contains
                          user-dependent configuration options (see next section
@@ -105,8 +138,15 @@ User-dependent configuration
 
 If you have placed Dev-Editor inside a directory protected using HTTP
 authentication, you may override some default configuration values for a defined
-list of users. You may override the values for "fileroot", "httproot" and
-"forbidden".
+list of users. You may override the values for the following configuration
+options:
+
+- fileroot
+- httproot
+- startdir
+- hide_dot_files
+- forbidden
+- disable_commands
 
 For overriding configuration values you need a special configuration file. The
 path to this file is defined using the "userconf_file" configuration option in
@@ -134,8 +174,8 @@ httproot = /
 aliases = marge bart
 
 Using this, the users whose usernames are "marge" and "bart" use the same
-configuration as "homer". Place any number of username seperated by whitespaces
-here.
+configuration as "homer". You can place an arbitrary number of usernames
+seperated by whitespaces here.
 Note: If one of the users mentioned as an alias and an individual configuration
 section for this user exists too, the one mentioned as an alias is ignored.
 
@@ -168,7 +208,7 @@ Hard links are not affected by this.
 ------------------------------------------------
 
 (C) 1999-2000 Roland Bluethgen, Frank Schoenmann
-(C) 2003-2005 Patrick Canterino
+(C) 2003-2011 Patrick Canterino
 
 E-Mail: patrick@patshaping.de
 WWW:    http://devedit.sourceforge.net/
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