Re: Who knew you could do that with DSPF?

Sweet.. thanks, John! I didn't know about this either.. but I normally use
windows explorer, this will make things a lot easier on my customers
machines where netserver is kaput.

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On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 6:21 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I have just accidentally rediscovered something Vern already mentioned
as recently as April of last year:

https://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201604/msg00674.html

It kind of flew by as a throwaway comment, but I think it's actually
pretty significant:

You can use DSPF *instead of* WRKLNK to navigate the IFS interactively!

DSPF, when used on a directory instead of a stream file, gives you
both more and less than what WRKLNK gives you. If what you want isn't
something that you can only get through WRKLNK, then DSPF is a much,
much better interface in my opinion. More information at your
fingertips, as well as sorting options! For those of you who didn't
know you could do that with DSPF, give it a try. You'll be pleasantly
surprised.

It's got its own quirks and limitations. (Like, how do you undo option
6 for a particular line? The only thing I've been able to come up with
is F5, which undoes all lines.) But despite them, I think DSPF is
quite handy. (It's also underused as a hex viewer for stream files.)

And so concludes my public service announcement for the day.

John Y.
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