u3369429@murdu.OZ (Michael 'I love VMS' Bednarek) (05/07/87)
I posted the (hopefully) stable version of SWING to comp.sources.misc As that is a moderated group, it will probably take a few days to be available. Thanks to: Eric Andresen (the original Author), Portia Shao (the original poster), Mike Strasser (who contributed ISADIR) and many more who submitted bug reports and improvement suggestions. Michael Bednarek u3369429@murdu.oz.au or U3369429@xvax.dn.mu.oz.au Here is the introduction of that posting: Finally. Here is SWING version '04-May-87' . (SWING is a VAX/VMS utility for displaying the graphical representation of directory trees on a VT100 or VT200 type terminal.) Because this is strictly a VAX/VMS tool, I packaged it not in the traditional "shar" format, but as self-unpacking VMS command procedure. It comes in 10 parts (to keep each part below 16000 characters). You have to save all 10 parts to files, remove all the mailer header lines and CONCATENATE them to one single file. The size of that file should be 278/279 blocks, 4628 lines, 16722 words, 134734 characters.
bqs@batcomputer.UUCP (05/20/87)
SWING is indeed a marvelous utility. Is there any chance of expanding it to allow file manipulation? It seems artificial to stop at directories. In particular, one can now delete a directory with all its files, but one cannot first see what files are in that directory. -- Benjamin Svetitsky bqs@mitlns.bitnet
tedcrane@batcomputer.UUCP (05/20/87)
SWING seems to be limited to one directory tree. That is, if I am in tree [XXX...], I cannot see things in tree [YYY...]. Was this an intentional limitation in the program, and if so, why? PS: Since all of our users are sitting on their own virtual disks, this means they cannot see anyone else's directory. Virtual disk== $ define DISK$username physical_disk:[userdir.]