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From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: latest ls.exe version in XP problem
Date: 15 Oct 2004 10:51:05 GMT
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one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com <one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> Hello,

> 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.

Think a momemnt about what the -F option means, and I think you'll see
that that is an unavoidable consequence of using that option.

> 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

What made you think you have to double those backslashes?  Unless
you're doing this in a Unix-style shell (Bash, e.g.), you don't.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.