jed@mb2c.UUCP (John E. Duncan III) (11/07/83)
One of the first things that I got tired of with the AZTEC system was the inability to find out how much space was remaining on my disks. I was constantly running out of space when trying to do compiles. I also missed the sorted directory lists produced by the UNIX ls command. Since it is not *easily* possible to replace the builtin AZTEC 'ls' comman, I wrote a new one: 'dir' that allows wild cards '?', '*' and character classes as in '[...]'. It produces a sorted list in either 1 column or 2 column mode. Control characters imbedded in file names are expanded to '^x' and the optional '-l' option shows lock status and file type as well as file size (in characters). The program automatically pauses at the end of each screen unless the -p option is used. I can't believe that I'm the only one out here writing stuff for the APPLE AZTEC system. If anybody else has programs of a general nature that run on it, please post them or send me mail if you're just interested in a second opinion. C'mon, this system is *GREAT*... now if it only had a decent shell, and a better editor.... I am posting a listing of my 'dir.c' program to net.sources. Please feel free to add it to your APPLE software tools library. John Duncan (mb2c!jed) Michigan Bell (313) 424-0178