Introduction

          Welcome.  Freedom Software is an organization
          dedicated to providing consistently high quality
          software products for the Open Systems market.  We
          appreciate your purchasing this application and
          believe that you will be rewarded with a useful
          friendly environment that will increase your
          productivity and reduce your irritation with
          simple UNIX file transactions.
          
          By freeing the user from the UNIX command
          interface for routine file management chores the
          Freedom Desktop permits more energy to be
          dedicated to completing useful work.  The desktop
          file manager is robust enough to simplify radical
          file and directory changes to the users file
          environment.  The program manager permits
          organizing complicated applications into simple
          icons.
          
          The Freedom Desktop file manager and program
          manager are designed so that  experienced UNIX
          users feel immediately at home.  The familiar
          terminal interface is readily accessible.  The
          power of the command line has been complimented by
          the Graphical User interface (GUI) not diminished
          by it.  The graphical user interface permits a
          number of simple and intuitive actions to
          powerfully manipulate files and directories for a
          variety of common tasks.
          
          New users will appreciate the simplicity of the
          interface and the freedom from the burden of
          learning routine UNIX commands.  An option in the
          file manager permits new users to execute their
          file manipulations by having the file manager send
          each command to the terminal window.  They can see
          the syntax of each command as it is executed.
          Once in the terminal window the user can
          manipulate the command text and reissue commands
          just as though it originated in the terminal.
     
     What Freedom Software's Desktop Does

           The Freedom Software file manager provides an
          attractive convenient Graphical User Interface to
          simplify and automate routine file handling
          chores.   The Motif window design has a clean
          elegant look with simple functional controls.  The
          file manager supports the use of the mouse or
          keyboard shortcuts to; copy, move, print, create
          and trash (delete) -- files and directories.
     
           The Freedom program manager provides a user
          customizable interface to organize and launch
          often used files and applications from simple user
          definable icons.  Related applications can be
          grouped into windows and accessed as a group to
          simplify and automate frequently repeated
          sessions.
     
