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Subj:   Announcing C Swing v3.7

C Swing v3.7 (a file and directory management utility) is now available.
It was posted to vmsnet.sources last week, so should be showing up there
soon.

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  |  This version will compile and run with VAX C on VAXes, or DEC C    |
  |  on AXPes (Alphas).  C Swing v3.7 is now available complete as ZIP  |
  |  archives via anonymous FTP from narnia.memst.edu (141.225.1.24).   |
  |  Object files and EXE's for both VMS VAX and VMS AXP are also there.|
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New features/bug fixes since v3.6.5:

    o Upgraded MOST to 3.2.0FM.  Added lots of new features and switches
      as described in the header of its main.c and in most.doc_fm.  Most
      notably, now has both Quick Help (summary of commands) and Full Help
      (display of doc file), GOLD and EDT style commands, -h qualifier for
      showing Full Help from the DCL command line, -n Naive Prompt
      qualifier and logical for replacing the dev:[dir]filename string in
      the status line with other information or a title. (Foteos Macrides)

    o Ported everything to DECC/Alpha, with tests for VAXC versus DECC
      in the code and build procedures.  Thanks to Bill Forbes,
      BFORBES@MR4DEC.ENET.DEC.COM, for help with VAXC versus DECC
      differences.  Thanks to Ross Smith, SMITH@MCCLB0.MED.NYU.EDU, for
      letting me use NYU Med's field test Alpha. (Foteos Macrides)

    o Updated the SWING Help Library and SWING Manual. (Foteos Macrides)

    o Fixed captive account editor selection (where there is no user
      profile) to not allow selection of "Other" editor commands, as
      any DCL command could be entered. (Harry Flowers)

[As you can see, Foteos Macrides has been hard at work!  Thanks, Foteos!]

For those not familiar with C Swing, here's an excerpt from the readme file:

SWING is a  VAX/Alpha  utility for the graphic representation and manipulation
of VMS directory structures and files on any terminal that can support the SMG
routines -- that is primarily  the  VTxxx  series  of  terminals  and terminal
emulators.  SWING is designed to  make  life  easy  for  a user who frequently
performs directory or file operations within his or her directories.

SWING's  Directory  Manager  displays  the  top  eight  levels  of the  user's
directory  structure.    If  there  are  more than eight levels a  diamond  is
displayed in  the  right-most  column  indicating that there are non-displayed
directories.  It's  File Manager is invoked via the F option while pointing to
a directory.

SWING has a two level help facility.  Quick menus  are  available  via  the  ?
option.  Standard VMS help is available via the H or HELP (LK201) option.
The C language version of SWING was written by  Simon Brown, and maintained by
him  through  V3.2.   It has been modified by many people,  and  is  currently
maintained primarily  by  Harry  Flowers,  Foteos Macrides, and Mats Akerberg.
Most of the  documentation  has  been  rewritten  by  Chris Butler  and Foteos
Macrides.  The re-write of SWING was necessary as Simon did not have a Fortran
compiler, and felt that C  was  a more appropriate language.  Also, colleagues
required major enhancements, so the software  was  started  from scratch.  The
result that you see here consumed something  in the region of 400 to 500 hours
of spare time.  The software has been placed back in the public domain.

For more information on SWING look in the MANUAL subdirectory,  where you will
find  SWING_MANUAL.MEM.   It can be printed,  or viewed with the MOST utility.
-- It is the User Guide, with answers to beginning and advanced questions.

MOST is a  file  paging  utility invoked via the Y option in the File Manager.
The version of MOST  supplied  with SWING is a modification by Foteos Macrides
of John E. Davis' MOST v3.0 and v3.2.

This version of MOST has a two level help facility.  A summary of its commands
is available via its ?,  H,  PF2,  or  HELP (LK201) option (synonyms for Quick
Help).  Its documentation file is  displayed via its GOLD H or GOLD PF2 option
(synonyms for Full Help), where GOLD is  PF1  or CTRL-X.  For more information
about MOST read MOST.DOC_FM in the DOCUMENTATION subdirectory.

As always, we're interested in any bug reports/enhancement requests that you
might have (not that we promise to fix/implement them ;-), but chances are
much better if we know about them).

--
Harry Flowers                           Internet: FLOWERS@MSUVX2.MEMST.EDU
Memphis State University                & Bitnet: FLOWERS@MEMSTVX1