OSF DCE Administration Guide--Core Components

Viewing the Structure and Contents of a Namespace
namespace.
Note: Use Expand All with care if you have a large namespace. The larger a
namespace, the longer it takes to display its entire contents.
19.1.4 Filtering the Namespace Display
Using the Filters menu, you can selectively display object entries of a particular class.
For example, if you are interested in seeing the entries for clearinghouse objects only,
choose the class CDS_Clearinghouse from the Filters menu. For any directory that you
expand after choosing a filter, you see only names of objects whose class matches the
filter.
Note that soft links are still displayed because they are not object entries and only object
entries can be filtered out. To reset the filter so that you can again view all object entries,
choose the * (asterisk) from the Filters menu.
19.1.5 Navigating the Namespace
Once you begin expanding the namespace, it can exceed the boundaries of your CDS
browser window, even if you enlarge the window. You can use the horizontal and
vertical scroll bars and stepping arrows to scroll through the namespace.
Dragging the slider up and down the vertical scroll bar on the right side of the display
window produces an index window. The index window shows the name where the slider
is currently positioned in the namespace. When the index window contains the name
that you want to view, release the mouse button to position that name at the top of the
CDS browser window.
In displays that are larger than the length of the window, scrolling through directory
levels can produce a reference line toward the top of the window. The line orients you
by showing the full directory pathname from the current name to the root. It also
indicates that you have scrolled past other parts of the namespace that are no longer
displayed.
19.2 Listing the Contents of Directories
The DCE control program provides a directory list command that allows you to display
a list of the descendants of a directory within the cell namespace. A directory’s
descendants are all the child pointers, clearinghouses, object entries, and soft links
existing in it.
To use the directory list command, you must have read permission to the CDS names
that you want to display.
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