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SWING is a very powerful VAX/VMS utility for displaying the graphic
representation of  the VMS directory structure on any terminal that can
support the VMS SMG (Screen Management) routines - that is primarily the
VT100, VT200 and VT300 series of  terminals or any PC terminal emulation of
the above. SWING is designed to make life easy for a user who frequently
performs file or directory operations within his or her directories.
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SO GOODBYE DCL !!!
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It is designed using the same philosophy as the Personal computer file
management packages, such as XTREE-GOLD and PCTOOLS, where the user should not
(doesn't need) to know operating system commands to manage directories and
files.
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SWING displays the top eight directory levels of the user's directory structure.
If there are more than eight levels a diamond is displayed in the 
right-most column indicating that there are non-displayed directories.
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You can specify optional parameters - the starting directories. These
are the directory structures you wish to display and manipulate. The
specifications may be separated by commas or spaces. 
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e.g.###$ Swing
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or#####$ Swing SYS$LOGIN
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or#####$ Swing SYS$LOGIN,SYS$EXAMPLES,SYS$LIBRARY 
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or#####$ Swing SYS$LOGIN SYS$EXAMPLES SYS$LIBRARY
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or#####$ Swing SYS$LOGIN,SYS$EXAMPLES SYS$LIBRARY

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There is a two level help facility within SWING. Quick menus are available via
the ? option. Standard VMS help is available via hitting H (or the [Help] key
on LK201 keyboards).
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Each SWING command description will have its equivalent DCL command (ie. the
command you type at the '$' prompt), so that any existing VAX users can
identify with the SWING command set.  This is identified in the text as a
line starting with 'DCL equiv:'.