Hi Janina, Good to knnow someone with your experience is also still looking. I often just use rm -i *.* for file-by-file keep or delete. Seems to me should be possible to build something in a shell script that would do much of what we need. I'll mess with that. thanks Tom On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 06:40:56PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > Hi, Tom: > > I regret I don't have a good anwer for you. In fact, I have the same > need and have never satisfied it. > > I never used "New Sweep." My nostaliga is for the "select copy," "select > delete," and "select move" commands built into the old 4DOS shell. Those > were the days. > > Probably the best console level solution is via Emacspeak, which I don't > use enough to make that my solution. > > I do sometimes use lynx on a directory. It doesn't do everything I used > to do in 4DOS, but it does let me look at the directory listing, one at > a time, and decide to keep or delete. > > Janina > > Tom Fowle writes: > > O.K. folks, laughter is encouraged, but--- > > Is there a truly simple command line file manager? that works well with > > speakup? > > > > Tried MC and suppose I could learn it but it still does too much. > > Now for the laughs? > > Does anybody remember the old dos program > > "new sweep?" > > Tried to install edbrowse and no luck on debian Wheezie > > Thanks > > tom > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 > sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Linux Foundation Fellow > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
