richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (04/13/89)
In article <13240016@hprmokg.HP.COM> alh@hprmokg.HP.COM (Al Harrington) writes: > >One problem with this. When you edit a file (I was using 'vi' from Manx C) >and save it the 's' bit is removed. > >What a pain! Many programs that I run are actually scripts that do something and then run the program in question. For example, on my system, I have a script called ``vi'' that does a ``run ivi'' (INTERNAL vi) so it doesn't obliterate what I have currently on the screen; it opens up a new window. I do a similar thing for dpaint - the script does an assign to a fonts directory that I use for dpaint, as opposed to font directories that I use for other things. So I suppose what you would need to do is make a script that checked for the S bit (no idea how, you may have to write a program) and then conditionally set it after editing the file in question. Oh yeah, another thing my vi script does is create an icon for any file I edit so I can click on it to run _more_ on it. As, ahem, icons became usefull after got a harddisk. -- ``Parents who have children, have children who have children'' richard@gryphon.COM decwrl!gryphon!richard gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV