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From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de>
To: "'Jose I. Cabrera'" <jicman AT cinops DOT xerox DOT com>, earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Cc: cygwin users <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: ls and long file names
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 01:02:40 +0100
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Hi Jose,

please see below!

Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jose I. Cabrera [SMTP:jicman AT cinops DOT xerox DOT com]
> Sent:	Friday, February 26, 1999 16:46
> To:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
> Cc:	cygwin users
> Subject:	Re: ls and long file names
> 
> All,
> 
> I agree that this is ls the intended behavior, but I thought that
>  there was a switch that would change this behavior and place
>  them according to file name sizes.  Here is an example of VMS:
> 
> $ dir
> 
> Directory USER15:[JCABRERA]
> 
> FILES_20200758.COM;1                    FILES_20200758.OUT;1
> FTPD.LOG;16         GAZ_OUT.TXT;1       JICMAN.DIR;1
> JIC_SUBJ.COM;14
> [Heribert]  [snip]
> X.X;1               _ALIASES.TPU$JOURNAL;1
> 
> Total of 50 files.
> $
> 
> as you can see, there are different file name sizes and yet, VMS
> places
>  them in columns, even though there are short names and long names.
> I know what you are going to say, "Jose, move to MVS," but, could not
> we have a switch that would make it this way?  It does not have to be
> the default, just a switch.
> 
> [Heribert]  Hey, X.X is *my* filename! And I like VMS, but want to
> avoid MVS 8-)
> VMS defaults to a TABs AT 20-like, max 4 columns behaviour. BTW, I use:
> $ sh sym d*
>   DC == "DIRECTORY/NOHE/NOTR/NOTOT/COL=1/WI=FI=55/NOSIZE/DATE"
>   D*IRECT == "DIR/DAT/SIZE"
>   DN == "DIRECTORY/NOHE/NOTR/NOTOT/COL=1/WI=FI=80/NOSIZE/NODATE"
> 
> I suggest you take the ls source and implement a, hmm,  -4 switch...
> 
> [Heribert]  [snip]
> 

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