From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de>
To: "'Jose I. Cabrera'" <jicman@cinops.xerox.com>, earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Cc: cygwin users <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: RE: ls and long file names
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 16:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <99B82AA9708ED0119B55006097125A000FA90A@ifk63.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de> (raw)
Hi Jose,
please see below!
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jose I. Cabrera [SMTP:jicman@cinops.xerox.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 26, 1999 16:46
> To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
> Cc: cygwin users
> Subject: Re: ls and long file names
>
> All,
>
> I agree that this is ls the intended behavior, but I thought that
> there was a switch that would change this behavior and place
> them according to file name sizes. Here is an example of VMS:
>
> $ dir
>
> Directory USER15:[JCABRERA]
>
> FILES_20200758.COM;1 FILES_20200758.OUT;1
> FTPD.LOG;16 GAZ_OUT.TXT;1 JICMAN.DIR;1
> JIC_SUBJ.COM;14
> [Heribert] [snip]
> X.X;1 _ALIASES.TPU$JOURNAL;1
>
> Total of 50 files.
> $
>
> as you can see, there are different file name sizes and yet, VMS
> places
> them in columns, even though there are short names and long names.
> I know what you are going to say, "Jose, move to MVS," but, could not
> we have a switch that would make it this way? It does not have to be
> the default, just a switch.
>
> [Heribert] Hey, X.X is *my* filename! And I like VMS, but want to
> avoid MVS 8-)
> VMS defaults to a TABs@20-like, max 4 columns behaviour. BTW, I use:
> $ sh sym d*
> DC == "DIRECTORY/NOHE/NOTR/NOTOT/COL=1/WI=FI=55/NOSIZE/DATE"
> D*IRECT == "DIR/DAT/SIZE"
> DN == "DIRECTORY/NOHE/NOTR/NOTOT/COL=1/WI=FI=80/NOSIZE/NODATE"
>
> I suggest you take the ls source and implement a, hmm, -4 switch...
>
> [Heribert] [snip]
>
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From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de>
To: "'Jose I. Cabrera'" <jicman@cinops.xerox.com>, earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Cc: cygwin users <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: RE: ls and long file names
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <99B82AA9708ED0119B55006097125A000FA90A@ifk63.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990228230200.0Ma1vjgyLPTHhAMVVGMZyITC_I85ETfpgyWtFtLrDm0@z> (raw)
Hi Jose,
please see below!
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jose I. Cabrera [SMTP:jicman@cinops.xerox.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 26, 1999 16:46
> To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
> Cc: cygwin users
> Subject: Re: ls and long file names
>
> All,
>
> I agree that this is ls the intended behavior, but I thought that
> there was a switch that would change this behavior and place
> them according to file name sizes. Here is an example of VMS:
>
> $ dir
>
> Directory USER15:[JCABRERA]
>
> FILES_20200758.COM;1 FILES_20200758.OUT;1
> FTPD.LOG;16 GAZ_OUT.TXT;1 JICMAN.DIR;1
> JIC_SUBJ.COM;14
> [Heribert] [snip]
> X.X;1 _ALIASES.TPU$JOURNAL;1
>
> Total of 50 files.
> $
>
> as you can see, there are different file name sizes and yet, VMS
> places
> them in columns, even though there are short names and long names.
> I know what you are going to say, "Jose, move to MVS," but, could not
> we have a switch that would make it this way? It does not have to be
> the default, just a switch.
>
> [Heribert] Hey, X.X is *my* filename! And I like VMS, but want to
> avoid MVS 8-)
> VMS defaults to a TABs@20-like, max 4 columns behaviour. BTW, I use:
> $ sh sym d*
> DC == "DIRECTORY/NOHE/NOTR/NOTOT/COL=1/WI=FI=55/NOSIZE/DATE"
> D*IRECT == "DIR/DAT/SIZE"
> DN == "DIRECTORY/NOHE/NOTR/NOTOT/COL=1/WI=FI=80/NOSIZE/NODATE"
>
> I suggest you take the ls source and implement a, hmm, -4 switch...
>
> [Heribert] [snip]
>
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next reply other threads:[~1999-02-26 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-26 16:04 Heribert Dahms [this message]
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Heribert Dahms
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1999-02-26 17:18 Jose I. Cabrera
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Jose I. Cabrera
1999-02-26 7:40 Jose I. Cabrera
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Jose I. Cabrera
1999-02-26 7:18 Jose I. Cabrera
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Jose I. Cabrera
1999-02-26 2:53 Bernard Dautrevaux
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Bernard Dautrevaux
1999-02-25 18:21 Earnie Boyd
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Earnie Boyd
1999-02-25 14:24 Heribert Dahms
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Heribert Dahms
1999-02-25 10:58 Jose I. Cabrera
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1999-02-25 11:12 ` Mumit Khan
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Mumit Khan
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Jose I. Cabrera
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