On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, der Mouse wrote:
> > Pardon my ignorance, but is anyone aware of a clone for Vernon
> > Buerg's LIST program that will run on the various Unix flavors?
>
> Assuming you're talking about the program http://www.buerg.com/list.htm
> describes...well, it's very thoroughly counter to the Unix philosphy of
> "each program does just one thing and does it well". At a minimum, it
> would have to include the equivalent of - or be prepared to fork and
> process output from - tip/chat ("dialer"), tar/pax/cpio/ar/etc (the
> various archive features), lpr/lprng/etc (printing), grep/egrep/etc
> (searching), find (directory tree walking), hexdump (looking at things
> in hex), and possibly others (for example, I don't know what "network
> compatible" is supposed to mean).
I was probably over inclusive when I spoke of a clone as far as
features are concerned. What I was thinking of was the ability to
be presented with a directory of files, select one with a cursor,
and display it a page at a time as List does. It also permits
calling up various archive opening ancillaries which can be rather
handy. A dialer and other esoteric 'capabilities' are of no
interest. I don't even use them in DOS.
So within those limited boundries does anyone have any helpful
suggestions to offer.
- don
> This probably could be done, but it would be a pretty horrible mess.
>
> > It would be awfully handy on my shell account!
>
> Perhaps. You probably would be better off, in the long run, learning
> to use the full power of the existing tools, though; you'll be able to
> do things with them that LIST cannot do[%], the skill gained will be
> fairly directly portable to other Unix systems (as opposed to having to
> install the LIST-alike), and you will learn a good deal about the
> underlying OS in the process.
>
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> [%] At least based on the advertised list of features.
>
Received on Thu Apr 01 2004 - 00:42:42 BST