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: <000b01be61ef$cba70030$1226e70d@channels.usa.xerox.com> From: "Jose I. Cabrera" To: "Heribert Dahms" , Cc: "cygwin users" Subject: Re: ls and long file names Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 20:23:35 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0810.800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0810.800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thank you all. jose ----- Original Message ----- From: Heribert Dahms To: 'Jose I. Cabrera' ; Cc: cygwin users Sent: Friday, February 26, 1999 7:02 PM Subject: RE: ls and long file names >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