File extension Details of KBD, KMD, LCK, LGS, LOCK, MYDOCS, MSSTYLES, MANIFEST, MANIFEST

Microsoft Windows

Company / developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a family of operating systems by Microsoft. They can run on several types of platforms such as servers, embedded devices and, most typically, on personal computers. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing trend of graphical user interfaces (GUI) popularized by the Macintosh. Microsoft Windows eventually came to dominate the world's personal computer market.

Clicker

Company / developer:
  SourceForge.net

What Is the Clicker?

Why another Shell/GUI ?

Why another File System ?

Why another Operating System ?

Clicker should be flexible enough to fully support the wide range of PC users and utilities. We want it to be a GENERAL operating system, which means that it would be possible to use the SAME system for games, secure networking or user-friendly computing.
Up to now, there are MANY system, which each have their weakest point and their advantage. For example, if you are a beginner, you'll prefer WINxx's GUI and bookshops! If you're an experimented user, you'll beter feel in a Unix-like world. If you're a gamer, you'll buy a PSX, and so on.
I could find MANY other examples. Clicker plans to be a single system for every such applications, being modular enough to change its components when the user changes (or when he switch between activities :)

That's not possible !? You're kidding !

We would like Clicker to allow BOTH of these features, by the way of SESSIONS, which should allow users to "tell" the system what he's going to do. I.e. if you're fed up with your textprocessor and want to play a little, you will turn clicker in the *FAST* mode, which will make it a "mono-application" system, but dramatically faster.
When your game is over, you can then switch back to *MAIN* mode and then go on with your 3D-modeler, or your sound-tracker.

These transitions should be as "fast" as the starting/ending of the X session under Linux or the commutation WIN->DOS. I prefer them to be faster, anyway...
We also hope that the super-user should be able to define some new operating modes with special features, and allow some user to go/don't go to specific modes.

Applications Modularity

In order to do so, we plan to make a lot of informations on running application available at a symbolic level (such as if the application can read text files, and if it can, which one is it reading ...), and to extensively use scripting and runtime compiling technologies.

Where Can I Get It ?

Heeey! keep c00l... We're not that kind of company that's able to make an OS in a few years! The idea of making a multi-tasking system appears only in '97! Then we took time to think about HOW we would multitask, how does OTHER system do and WHY that's not always a great idea.
Now, we have a multitasking microkernel, design with ease-of code state of mind. Documentations writing is under heavy achievement (some teacups are already written) so that most people should be able to CODE for Clicker. Everything you could get about Clicker is located on SourceForge Clicker project . There are sources files (could be a bit tricky to compile), binaries demos, miscellaneous tools, etc.

Can I Contribute ?

Well, that would be *great*, moreover if you're experimented with Operating System, because we're quite few to code it, for the moment.
Now the Clicker has a running microkernel, we'll be able to get help from more developers for hardware drivers design and implementation, file system, network stack, etc.
To be part of the Clicker Development team , just send me an e-mail with your sourceforge login and we'll count you in ;) we need mostly coders (C is a must). It also would be great if, in a near future, one of these coders could manage a kind of "doc repository" to centralize every technical papers on the web.

Microsoft Windows

Company / developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a family of operating systems by Microsoft. They can run on several types of platforms such as servers, embedded devices and, most typically, on personal computers. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing trend of graphical user interfaces (GUI) popularized by the Macintosh. Microsoft Windows eventually came to dominate the world's personal computer market.

Microsoft Windows

Company / developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a family of operating systems by Microsoft. They can run on several types of platforms such as servers, embedded devices and, most typically, on personal computers. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing trend of graphical user interfaces (GUI) popularized by the Macintosh. Microsoft Windows eventually came to dominate the world's personal computer market.

Linux operating systems

Company / developer:
  Linux Online Inc.

Linux

Linux is an operating system that was initially created as a hobby by a young student, Linus Torvalds, at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Linus had an interest in Minix, a small UNIX system, and decided to develop a system that exceeded the Minix standards. He began his work in 1991 when he released version 0.02 and worked steadily until 1994 when version 1.0 of the Linux Kernel was released. The kernel, at the heart of all Linux systems, is developed and released under the GNU General Public License and its source code is freely available to everyone. It is this kernel that forms the base around which a Linux operating system is developed. There are now literally hundreds of companies and organizations and an equal number of individuals that have released their own versions of operating systems based on the Linux kernel. More information on the kernel can be found at our sister site, LinuxHQ and at the official Linux Kernel Archives. The current full-featured version is 2.6 (released December 2003) and development continues.

Apart from the fact that it's freely distributed, Linux's functionality, adaptability and robustness, has made it the main alternative for proprietary Unix and Microsoft operating systems. IBM, Hewlett-Packard and other giants of the computing world have embraced Linux and support its ongoing development. Well into its second decade of existence, Linux has been adopted worldwide primarily as a server platform. Its use as a home and office desktop operating system is also on the rise. The operating system can also be incorporated directly into microchips in a process called "embedding" and is increasingly being used this way in appliances and devices.

Throughout most of the 1990's, tech pundits, largely unaware of Linux's potential, dismissed it as a computer hobbyist project, unsuitable for the general public's computing needs. Through the efforts of developers of desktop management systems such as KDE and GNOME, office suite project OpenOffice.org and the Mozilla web browser project, to name only a few, there are now a wide range of applications that run on Linux and it can be used by anyone regardless of his/her knowledge of computers. Those curious to see the capabilities of Linux can download a live CD version called Knoppix . It comes with everything you might need to carry out day-to-day tasks on the computer and it needs no installation. It will run from a CD in a computer capable of booting from the CD drive. Those choosing to continue using Linux can find a variety of versions or "distributions" of Linux that are easy to install, configure and use. Information on these products is available in our distribution section and can be found by selecting the mainstream/general public category.

Microsoft Windows

Company / developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a family of operating systems by Microsoft. They can run on several types of platforms such as servers, embedded devices and, most typically, on personal computers. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing trend of graphical user interfaces (GUI) popularized by the Macintosh. Microsoft Windows eventually came to dominate the world's personal computer market.

Microsoft Windows

Company / developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a family of operating systems by Microsoft. They can run on several types of platforms such as servers, embedded devices and, most typically, on personal computers. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing trend of graphical user interfaces (GUI) popularized by the Macintosh. Microsoft Windows eventually came to dominate the world's personal computer market.

Microsoft Windows

Company / developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a family of operating systems by Microsoft. They can run on several types of platforms such as servers, embedded devices and, most typically, on personal computers. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing trend of graphical user interfaces (GUI) popularized by the Macintosh. Microsoft Windows eventually came to dominate the world's personal computer market.

Manifest File Format

F,[SOURCEPATH]relative_path_to_source_file,./relative_path_to_destination_file

F,absolute_path_to_source_file,./relative_path_to_destination_file

To put files on the classpath:

F,absolute_path_to_source_file,./relative_path_to_destination_file,cp

To set a file's permissions on UNIX:

F,[SOURCEPATH]relative_path_to_source_file,./relative_path_to_destination_file,755

For directories:

D,[SOURCEPATH]relative_path_to_source_dir[/],./relative_path_to_destination_dir[/]

D,absolute_path_to_source_dir[/],./relative_path_to_destination_dir[/]

Examples:

F,$IA_HOME$/path/to/source/file.txt,./destination/path/thisfile.txt

F,/absolute/path/to/source/file.txt,./destination/path/thisfile.txt,cp,655

D,$IA_HOME$/path/to/dir,./destination/path/dir

D,/absolute/path/to/dir,./destination/path/dir

InstallAnywhere

Company / developer:
  Macrovision Corporation

InstallAnywhere — the most powerful multi–platform software deployment solution available. It deploys any application to any platform. InstallAnywhere combines amazing control, performance, and an easy to use graphic interface to create software installers that install perfectly every time, lowering development and support costs.

Deploy your application on any platform. InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition is designed to install any kind of software -- desktop, enterprise, or multi-tiered Web services - onto any platform, and to configure those applications for optimal performance. Whether you're creating applications written in Java, C++, PERL, or C#, or deploying EJBs or .NET Web services, all of the installation details are handled automatically. InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition simplifies complex installations and provides maximum developer customization, along with extensive user interaction, client/server features and localization for 29 languages.

Windows XP Professional

Company / developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

Windows XP Professional

The two major editions are Windows XP Home Edition, designed for home users, and Windows XP Professional, designed for business and power-users. XP Professional contains advanced features that the average home user would not use. However, these features are not necessarily missing from XP Home. They are simply disabled, but are there and can become functional. These releases were made available at retail outlets that sell computer software, and were pre-installed on computers sold by major computer manufacturers. As of mid-2008, both editions continue to be sold. A third edition, called Windows XP Media Center Edition was introduced in 2002 and was updated every year until 2006 to incorporate new digital media, broadcast television and Media Center Extender capabilities. Unlike the Home and Professional edition, it was never made available for retail purchase, and was typically either sold through OEM channels, or was pre-installed on computers that were typically marketed as "media center PCs".