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<refmeta><refentrytitle>&cmd;</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class="date">14 May 2008</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man3;</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="software">&release;</refmiscinfo>
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GNOME Virtual File System</primary></indexterm>
<refnamediv id="libgnomevfs-2-3-name"><refname>&cmd;</refname><refpurpose>
GNOME Virtual File System</refpurpose></refnamediv>
<refsect1 id="libgnomevfs-2-3-desc"><title>&desc-tt;</title>
<para>
GnomeVFS is obsolete.  It has been superseded by libgio-2.0.  See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>libgio-2.0</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
<para>GnomeVFS is a filesystem abstraction library which gives applications
plugable transparent access to a variety of "real" filesystems, from WebDAV
to digital cameras, to the local filesystem. It also contains a number of
other convenient file utilities such as a comprehensive MIME database / Application
registry, and a copy engine. Use of GnomeVFS also ensures that an application
or component will be usable by Nautilus or other GnomeVFS applications for
handling the display of data from various URIs.</para>
<para>Besides providing transparent access to data methods that you might
otherwise have to implement, GnomeVFS provides a number of convenient libraries
for processing URIs, detecting the MIME type of files, and identifying which
applications or components to launch to view a file or what icon to use. Writing
a GnomeVFS module may also be an appropriate solution to some data access
problems as it allows the developer to implement a relatively small number
of functions to gain general filesystem semantics.</para>
<para>To access the API documentation, you must install the developer version
of the package.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="libgnomevfs-2-3-file"><title>&file-tt;</title>
<para>The following files are used by this application:</para>
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<varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/lib/&cmd;.so</filename> </term><listitem>
<para>GNOME Virtual File System shared library</para>
</listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gnome-vfs-2.0</filename> </term><listitem>
<para>Location of developer documentation</para>
</listitem></varlistentry>
</variablelist></refsect1>
<refsect1 id="libgnomevfs-2-3-attr"><title>&attr-tt;</title>
<para>See <olink targetdocent="REFMAN5" localinfo="attributes-5"><citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></olink>
for descriptions of the following attributes:</para>
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<thead>
<row><entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE TYPE</entry><entry align="center"
valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE VALUE</entry></row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row><entry><para>Availability</para></entry><entry><para>library/gnome/gnome-vfs</para></entry>
</row>
<row><entry colname="COLSPEC0"><para>Interface stability</para></entry><entry
colname="COLSPEC1"><para>Obsolete Volatile</para></entry></row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="libgnomevfs-2-3-also"><title>&also-tt;</title>
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<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnomevfs-cat</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnomevfs-copy</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnomevfs-info</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnomevfs-ls</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnomevfs-mkdir</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>nautilus</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>libgio-2.0</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-vfs-mime-magic</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-vfs.applications</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-vfs.keys</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-vfs.mime</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-interfaces</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
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<refsect1 id="libgnomevfs-2-3-note"><title>&note-tt;</title>
<para>Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008.</para>
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