SCAN -- A directory scan utility for VMS.  Version 1.4


     Submitted by: David Spencer. AmeriCare Health Corporation, Sacramento CA

 Operating System: VAX/VMS and microVMS V4.4 and later
  Source Language: VAXTPU
Hardware Required: Video terminal

Keywords: Editors, File Management, Utilities

Abstract:

SCAN is a directory management tool written entirely in the new VAXTPU 
language distributed with VMS and microVMS beginning with version 4.2 of the 
operating system.

SCAN allows the user to display a file directory on the screen in an editing
window. The user may use the arrow and other cursor movement keys to move the 
cursor to a specific file of interest. Other editing keys are available to
take that file and type it to the screen, edit it, copy it, rename it, print
it, delete it, run it, get a full directory listing, submit it to the batch
queue, execute it as a DCL command procedure, enter that file as a
subdirectory, and so forth. More editing keys are available select a new
directory (and/or wildcard filename specification) to view, spawn a DCL
subprocess, search for a string in the directory buffer, return to the last
directory specified, enter and execute a TPU command, and so on. 

SCAN is so useful for managing and cleaning up directories that some users 
start it at the beginning of the day and never leave. Full help is provided 
with SCAN and is integrated with the standard VMS help utility so help is 
available on SCAN outside of SCAN.

Please do not confuse SCAN with the Digital language by the same name. Systems 
with Digital's SCAN will encounter no difficulty with both packages
co-existing on their system. (My SCAN is called DIRECTORY_SCAN on the disk,
and can easily be renamed if required.) Installation instructions are included
with the distribution.