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From: "Nimrod A. Abing" <n_abing AT ns DOT roxas-online DOT net DOT ph>
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At 01:02 PM 05/29/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>  I've been working on a program to list the files in a directory (my
>own personal replacement for "dir"), in color, with auto-paging, with
>drive space statistics, etc.

FWIW, you could have just downloaded and installed the fil???b.zip package
which contains the `ls', `df', and `du' commands. These commands will list
the contents of a directory, show (estimate?) remaining disk space, and
show how much space a file or directory uses. With the --color=auto
command-line option to `ls' you can get colored output on your colored
monitor. To get paging, there is the `less' pager that comes in its own
package.

Although it's good practice to actually write programs, it's not good
programming practice to ``reinvent the wheel'' ;-)

nimrod_a_abing
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