Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <99B82AA9708ED0119B55006097125A000FA90A@ifk63.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de> From: Heribert Dahms To: "'Jose I. Cabrera'" , earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Cc: cygwin users Subject: RE: ls and long file names Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 01:02:40 +0100 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1457.3) Content-Type: text/plain 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] > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com