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From: wyle@solaris.UUCP (Mitchell Wyle)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Directory management shell
Message-ID: <524@solaris.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 89 21:23:38 GMT
References: <458@uvabick.UUCP> <9623@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: wyle@ethz.UUCP (Mitchell Wyle)
Organization: Information Systems ETHZ
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In article <9623@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <458@uvabick.UUCP> matthew@uvabick.UUCP (Matthew D. Lewis) writes:
>>Is there such a thing as a directory management shell for a Unix system, 
>>something along the lines of the DOS shells?  I have a directory (or two :-)
>Not being familiar with "DOS shells" I'm not sure what it is that

He meant (I assume) a *VISUAL* environement like Xdos or my menu-shell
for suns (msh) which lets you navigate through directory trees and
perform operations by pointing, selecting with a mouse (or function keys
in dos shells).  Unix is in the stone age as far as powerful directory
browsing utilities go.  -Mitch

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-Mitchell F. Wyle                         wyle@ethz.uucp
Institut fuer Informationsysteme          wyle@inf.ethz.ch
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