X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f X-Trace-PostClient-IP: 68.147.131.211 From: Brian Inglis Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: latest ls.exe version in XP problem Organization: Systematic Software Message-ID: <3qtum01b6ifo4t461j2ma065kl0k39kbfs@4ax.com> References: <6jKbd.13476$nj DOT 4016 AT newssvr13 DOT news DOT prodigy DOT com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 46 Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 08:21:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.71.223.147 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT shaw DOT ca X-Trace: pd7tw2no 1097828517 24.71.223.147 (Fri, 15 Oct 2004 02:21:57 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 02:21:57 MDT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 06:42:10 GMT in comp.os.msdos.djgpp, "one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com" wrote: In general, read: http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/main.htm >Just noticed several issues about ls.exe. Any help is appreciated. > >For the latest ls.exe under Windows XP, there are three issues. > >1) under a directory with one thousand files, >run command "ls -F" will take 1 minute to start to display the files and >directory. using "ls" has no such long delay. using "dir" has no such a >problem either. ls -F has to do a stat call for each name to find out whether it's a directory, executable, link, or normal file: this may involve two directory lookups per name, and maybe other system calls, before sorting and displaying the information. Try dir /o:n for speed comparison. >2) there is no way to use ls.exe to display files in Windows network path? > >I can use the command > dir \\my_workgroup_machine_name\directory_name > >the following doesn't seem to work. > ls \\\\my_workgroup_machine_name\\directory_name Map it to a drive letter with: net use x: \\my_workgroup_machine_name\directory_name then use the drive letter. >3) ls xxxx_xx_200409292300.* doesn't work NTVDM does not support long file names. Install NTlfn package before installing DJGPP: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2misc/ntlfn08b.zip If you want Windows capabilities, install CygWin not DJGPP: http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html -- Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada Brian DOT Inglis AT CSi DOT com (Brian[dot]Inglis{at}SystematicSW[dot]ab[dot]ca) fake address use address above to reply