dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton) (03/15/91)
Phil Dietz's NEWLIST 4.8 came through comp.binaries.amiga today, and I eagerly
UUDECODED it, and read the doco [whatever happened to suck it and see! :^)],
and then proceeded to have a fiddle with it.
First I tried NewList (NL) on my RAM: directory, and it worked fine. Then on
my large DLOAD: directory :
168 files - 1 dirs - 14516 blocks - 7235640 bytes
Which was GREAT. I was so SICK of LIST only telling me block size, and having
to guesstimate by dividing block count by two, and multiplying by 1000.
Then I did 'NL Ram: -q sd' (Forgetting to put the '-' on the sd flag) and I
got a Software Failure! Sigh.
Guru 00000005 (Divide by Zero). This is repeatable - if you use NewList
with the -q option, and specify a file in the path that doesn't exist, NewList
will cause a 'divide by zero' software failure each and every time. Oh well.
I really like NL though, and if that bug's fixed, I'll even send my dollar
over! :-)
Minor documentation hassle:
s Sort by name sd Sort by file size
sd Sorts by Date h No header
So, 'sd' sorts by date, and 'sd' sorts by file size, eh! :-). The
documentation goes on to explain that 'ss' was the flag for size. I guess
Phil just 'Snapped' his help-screen into the doco, because the error is in the
program itself (NewList ? will show the same thing).
My favourite flag combo (so far) is '-qs -v'. It's a neat program.
Thanks Phil. (Now fix that /0 bug!)
Dac
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