peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (06/25/88)
In article ... carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS) writes: > You are supposed to supply a specification for the window. > Like RAW:0/0/640/200/MyWindow Well, I just clicked up a CLI to try this, and typed "copy * to con:". It came back with: " .info..Can't open con:". That's funny, I thought. Then "Oh, it's the ARP copy, and '*' means '#?'". Now then, someone on the net said that with the ARP copy "copy to con:" will work... " .info..Can't open con:". So, until someone tells me how to create a file with "copy", or they fix this bug (yes, the AmigaDOS documentation says "*" is standard input or output, and the ARP documentation says that it's compatible with AmigaDOS, so it's a bug), I'm going to switch back to the DOS copy. In all fairness to ARP, they did hold off on replacing copy for a long time, so I guess they haven't had as much time to test this one. Perhaps you ARPies could look for an environment variable "WILDSTAR" and if it's set to "no" disable "*". Let the user decide! Oh yeh, while we're on the subject of incompatibilities with AmigaDOS, how about adding one: 1> dir .info 49 rwed Future 20:56:47 c Dir rwed Future 07:07:43 System Dir rwed Future 07:10:03 l Dir rwed Today 20:59:08 devs Dir rwed Tomorrow 20:58:34 s Dir rwed Monday 20:59:30 ben.blish 190 rwed Future 20:56:47 ... ^^^^^^^^^ This column here is a little less than informative. Would it be too much trouble to ask for something like 25-JUN-88? It'd fit in *exactly* the same space. -- -- `-_-' Peter (have you hugged your wolf today?) da Silva. -- U Mail to ...!uunet!sugar!peter, flames to /dev/null. -- "A foolish consistancy is the hobgoblin of little minds".
steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats) (06/27/88)
In article <2174@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > >Oh yeh, while we're on the subject of incompatibilities with AmigaDOS, how >about adding one: > >1> dir >.info 49 rwed Future 20:56:47 >c Dir rwed Future 07:07:43 >System Dir rwed Future 07:10:03 >l Dir rwed Today 20:59:08 >devs Dir rwed Tomorrow 20:58:34 >s Dir rwed Monday 20:59:30 >ben.blish 190 rwed Future 20:56:47 >... ^^^^^^^^^ > This column here is a little less >than informative. Would it be too much trouble to ask for something like >25-JUN-88? It'd fit in *exactly* the same space. >-- >-- `-_-' Peter (have you hugged your wolf today?) da Silva. >-- U Mail to ...!uunet!sugar!peter, flames to /dev/null. >-- "A foolish consistancy is the hobgoblin of little minds". I think you meant the list command, not dir. Anyway, all you have to do is say "list dates" and all your yesterdays, todays, tommorows and futures will be displayed numerically. Steve (RTFM) Beats
peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (06/28/88)
In article <4121@cbmvax.UUCP>, steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats) writes: > In article <2174@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > >Oh yeh, while we're on the subject of incompatibilities with AmigaDOS, how > >about adding one: > > > >1> list ; blush > >devs Dir rwed Tomorrow 20:58:34 > >s Dir rwed Monday 20:59:30 > >ben.blish 190 rwed Future 20:56:47 > >... ^^^^^^^^^ > > This column here is a little less > >than informative. Would it be too much trouble to ask for something like > >25-JUN-88? It'd fit in *exactly* the same space. > I think you meant the list command, not dir. Anyway, all you have to do is > say "list dates" and all your yesterdays, todays, tommorows and futures will > be displayed numerically. > Steve (RTFM) Beats I RTFM: Options available: DATES Displays dates in the form DD-MMM-YY (the default unless you use "QUICK"). NODATES Does not display date and time information. Now then, this entry says that the default behaviour for the LIST command is to list dates in the form DD-MMM-YY. It's one thing to say RTFM, but you have to play with the options a bunch and figure out what they really mean. I never hit this one. I presume TFM will be improved for 1.3, so we can actually UTFM (understand TFM) when we RTFM. I'm not alone in this misapprehension, by the way. The ARP list command behaves the way I thought the *real* list behaved. Neither behave the way the manual describes. Oh well... ARP LIST joins ARP COPY in oblivion, and here's hoping the next ARP LIST behaves the way the manual says... -- -- `-_-' Peter (have you hugged your wolf today?) da Silva. -- U Mail to ...!uunet!sugar!peter, flames to /dev/null. -- "A foolish consistancy is the hobgoblin of little minds".