richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (03/07/89)
In article <855@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) writes: > >I hope he posted the most current version, 2.2. Yes, it is a great >program. I make it resident and alias 'dir' to 'ls'. That's the way >the Amiga should work. Wow. I've never had a screwup met with so much enthusiasm (it was supposed to be Distribution: local). But anyway, no he didnt post the most recent version 2.2, it's 2.0. Somebody wanna send it (2.2) to Bob Page, or, at least mail it to *me* :-) -- Memory parity error. Abort, retry or ignore ? richard@gryphon.COM decwrl!gryphon!richard gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV
nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock) (03/09/89)
Yeah, this LS thang is fast. But it's so darn weird I don't know if I can deal with it. It beats the Manx LS (which I'm quite happy with overall) for speed, but it lists the directories from left to right. I mean, it looks like it prints the whole left column, then the next column, and so on, so the whole thing just sort of sweeps on to the screen. I'm just not used to seeing stuff like this on a text screen. Anyone else find it disconcerting? /.- -- .. --. .- .-. ..- .-.. . ... .- -- .. --. .- .-. ..- .-.. . ...\ / Neil Weinstock | att!cord!nsw | "One man's garbage is another \ \ AT&T Bell Labs | nsw@cord.att.com | man's prune danish." - Harv Laser / \.- -- .. --. .- .-. ..- .-.. . ... .- -- .. --. .- .-. ..- .-.. . .../
brant@uf.msc.umn.edu (Gary Brant) (03/09/89)
In article <732@cord.UUCP> nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock) writes: > >Yeah, this LS thang is fast. But it's so darn weird I don't know if I can >deal with it. It beats the Manx LS (which I'm quite happy with overall) >for speed, but it lists the directories from left to right. I mean, it looks >like it prints the whole left column, then the next column, and so on, so the >whole thing just sort of sweeps on to the screen. I'm just not used to seeing >stuff like this on a text screen. > >Anyone else find it disconcerting? > Yeah I found it to be distracting. I would have kept it anyways except for the fact that it writes directly to the screen instead of stdout. This makes it sort of useless for feeding filter chains, etc. Shame. It sure is fast. -Gary Brant
richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (03/09/89)
In article <732@cord.UUCP> nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock) writes: > >Yeah, this LS thang is fast. But it's so darn weird I don't know if I can >deal with it. It beats the Manx LS (which I'm quite happy with overall) >for speed, but it lists the directories from left to right. I mean, it looks >like it prints the whole left column, then the next column, and so on, so the >whole thing just sort of sweeps on to the screen. I'm just not used to seeing >stuff like this on a text screen. > >Anyone else find it disconcerting? I agree it's unusual, but I don't think it's anything to get yer knickers in a twist about. It's probably faster, or rather *appears* to be faster, by painting the first column. You see your screen scroll scroll scroll scroll anf say to yourself ``wowsers, that wuz quick'', and then it paints the rest of the listing. I 've gotten used to it in only a couple of days and I really like it. Of course if it really bothers you, *blink*. > /.- -- .. --. .- .-. ..- .-.. . ... .- -- .. --. .- .-. ..- .-.. . ...\ >/ Neil Weinstock | att!cord!nsw | "One man's garbage is another \ >\ AT&T Bell Labs | nsw@cord.att.com | man's prune danish." - Harv Laser / > \.- -- .. --. .- .-. ..- .-.. . ... .- -- .. --. .- .-. ..- .-.. . .../ -- ``well I got a portal account. geezus what a goofy system.'' - Harv Laser richard@gryphon.COM decwrl!gryphon!richard gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV