Editing File manager (section)

==File-list file manager==
[[File:Alto Neptune Filemanager.gif|thumb|The Alto Neptune file manager program]]

''File-list'' file managers are lesser known and older than orthodox file managers.

One such file manager was [[Xerox Alto#Software|neptune]]. It ran on the [[Xerox Alto]] in the 1973-1974 time frame.
It had some of the same features that would end up in orthodox file managers.

Another such file manager is flist, which was introduced sometime before 1980 on the [[Conversational Monitor System]].<ref>{{citation |contribution-url=http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/share/SHARE_61_Proceedings_Volume_1_Summer_1983/B638%20CMS%20Architecture%20and%20Interactive%20Computing;%20Daney.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150422152204/http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/share/SHARE_61_Proceedings_Volume_1_Summer_1983/B638%20CMS%20Architecture%20and%20Interactive%20Computing%3B%20Daney.pdf |archive-date=2015-04-22 |url-status=live |contribution=CMS Architecture and Interactive Computing |first=Charles |last=Daney |publisher=SHARE Inc. |title=Proceedings of SHARE 61 |volume=1 |year=1983}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://frs.uconn.edu/cms/index.php?com=flist |title=Discussion of VM/CMS FLIST showing screenshot |access-date=2007-08-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070831145538/http://frs.uconn.edu/cms/index.php?com=flist |archive-date=2007-08-31 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://mitvma.mit.edu/cmshelp.cgi?CMS%20FLIST%20(ALL |title=Textual description of VM/CMS FLIST |access-date=2007-08-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080130195119/http://mitvma.mit.edu/cmshelp.cgi?CMS%20FLIST%20%28ALL |archive-date=2008-01-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
This is a variant of FULIST, which originated before late 1978, according to comments by its author, Theo Alkema.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#9 |title=email by Theo Alkema to Lynn Wheeler |date=1978-10-10 |access-date=2008-01-31}}</ref>

The flist program provided a list of files in the user's minidisk,<ref name="minidisk">{{cite news|url=https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSB27U_6.2.0/com.ibm.zvm.v620.dmsb4/flist.htm |title=FLIST - IBM}}</ref> and allowed sorting by any file attribute. The file attributes could be passed to scripts or function-key definitions, making it simple to use flist as part of [[CMS EXEC]], [[EXEC 2]] or [[XEDIT]] scripts.

This program ran only on IBM VM/SP CMS, but was the inspiration for other programs, including filelist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.plex86.org/Computer_Folklore/TSO-and-more-was--PDP1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927145226/http://www.plex86.org/Computer_Folklore/TSO-and-more-was--PDP1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-09-27 |title=Comment on original author of FULIST}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?FILELIST |title=Description of FILELIST|date=8 February 1999}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://bit.listserv.vmesa-l.narkive.com/eJ62tE45/fulist |title=User comparing FLIST to FILELIST }}</ref> (a script run via the [[XEDIT|Xedit]] editor), and programs running on other operating systems, including a program also called flist, which ran on [[OpenVMS]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://invisible-island.net |title=FLIST - file manager for VAX/VMS}}</ref> and FULIST (from the name of the corresponding internal IBM program),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mail-archive.com/vmesa-l@listserv.uark.edu/msg00893.html |title=User comparing FULIST and FLIST }}</ref> which runs on [[Unix]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://users.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ian.collier/Programs/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010429231944/http://users.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ian.collier/Programs/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2001-04-29 |title=FULIST for Unix }}</ref>