SWEEP TIP: LOGGING ON ............................................. Rick Ryall

     SWEEP, which is also sometimes called NSWEEP or NSWP (for New Sweep ), is
a very popular and powerful utility program that nearly everyone uses.  There
are many available program features that are not explained in the menu or help
files that I have seen, one of which is the log on procedure.  Here are some
tips on it.

     When you have already invoked the program, you may log onto another disk
or user area by pressing the "L" key.  The program responds with this prompt:

                           New drive / user / mask?

     What this means, exactly, is that you may log onto a new disk drive, or
log onto a new user area, or display only the files that match a given "mask".
You may also do all of these things at once.  Here are some examples to give
you an idea of what this means, in the following format: the prompt, what you
might have typed, and, on the line immediately below, an explanation of what
the program would then do.

New drive / user / mask?  A
Log onto the A drive in the current user area.

New drive / user / mask?  A3
Log onto the A drive in user area 3.

New drive / user / mask?  A*
Log onto the A drive in ALL the user areas.

New drive / user / mask?  *.COM
Display only files that are on the logged drive and end with ".COM".

New drive / user / mask?  B13:*.BAS
Display only files that are on the B drive in user area 13 and end with ".BAS".

New drive / user / mask?  13:G*.*
Display only files that are on the logged drive in user area 13 and start with
"G".

New drive / user / mask? 4
Log onto the current drive in user area 4.


     Another interesting thing to note is that you can call most of these
features up when you run the program.  For instance (assuming the name of your
version of the program is NSWEEP), you could execute the program and come up
automatically on drive B, user area 9, and ready to view all files that end
with ".TXT", by typing this at the CP/M prompt:

                               NSWEEP B9:*.TXT

     That's all.
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