NSWP for UNIX?

Dave Cohrs dave at uwvax.UUCP
Sat Jun 1 07:47:54 AEST 1985


>      Are you familiar with "nswp" (a public domain program for
> CP/M-based micro's)?  How hard would it be to come up with a
> UNIX-equivalent?
>      "nswp" allows CP/M users to step through their directory, one
> file at a time, and do various things (skip it, view it,
> squeeze/unsqueeze, or tag it for "deletion" or "mass copy", etc.).
> Users have menu-option at each file to "delete all tagged files",
> "copy all tagged files", etc.

There was a program posted to the net a while back called dired (directory
editor).  It doesn't do the 'copy' option, but this would be easy to add.
It does allow you to walk around through the directory structure.

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