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Re: Personal wishlist....

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From: Bill Lyons
Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 00:00
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On Monday, in article <830815158snz@siberia.demon.co.uk>
     philip@siberia.demon.co.uk "Philip McNab" wrote:

PM> On Monday, in article <830796776snz@pcserv.demon.co.uk>
PM>      paul@pcserv.demon.co.uk "Paul Carpenter" wrote:
PM> 
PM> [snip other good ideas]
PM> PC> PCELM   Listing of folders has * or x* for list all folders starting
PM> PC>         with 'x'. When like me you have a lot of folders, it
PM> PC>         would be nice to have
PM> 
PM> PC>           b+ - list all folders starting with 'b' onwards
PM> PC>
PM> PC>         Instead of going through all the letters of the alphabet
PM> PC>          with an '*' after them.
PM> 
PM> Or better still, how about a scrollable pop-up menu of folders?
PM> Shouldn't be hard to implement, but wld be much easier than having to
PM> retype.

If no one minds something as horribly primitive as a DOS batch file, this 
is what I've been using for some time to display (paged) all folders:

! <RET> fold <RET> - shells & calls batch file \DEMON\PCELM\FOLD.BAT :-

    @echo off
    cls
    echo List of Folders:
    dir \demon\spool\mail\bill /w/o/p/a:-d

That's it!

-- 
Bill Lyons - Bill@lyons.demon.co.uk / w.lyons@ieee.org
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From: Bill Lyons <Bill@lyons.demon.co.uk>
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Date: 1996/05/03
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