On Saturday 02 March 2019 09:19:38 Felmon Davis wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Mar 2019, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday 02 March 2019 08:52:12 Felmon Davis wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2 Mar 2019, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>> xpdf is there but has no file open dialog so what good is that.
> >>
> >> it does. open it and do a right click for the dialog.
> >>
> >> fjd
> >
> > But it can't open anything in /usr/share/doc/linuxcnc. You can type
> > it into the path, and it reverts to /home/gene when you hit return
> > to get a file listing in that directory.  So AFAIAC it still does
> > not have a file open dialog.  Useless to me.
>
> that is strange. I am now looking at /usr/....
>
> at the top of the dialog there is a field called 'filter'; have you
> tried your hand at that?

I wiped it out. Hitting return in the lower path entry line restores it 
in the filter field too.
>
> what is 'AFAIAC'?

As Far As I Am Concerned.

Same rules to get that as are used to get TANSTAAFL from "theres no such 
thing as a free lunch". :)

Standard internet jargon in other words.
> f.


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