To: physmsa AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz Cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com References: <199710132235 DOT LAA24325 AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz> Message-Id: Organization: International Brownian Movement From: "-= ArkanoiD =-" Date: Tue, 14 Oct 97 04:01:08 +0300 Subject: Re: ls Lines: 65 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk nuqneH, > Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 11:35:55 +1300 > From: physmsa AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz (Mr M S Aitchison) > Subject: Re: ls > To: opendos AT delorie DOT com > > I am looking for "ls" that is: > > a) softlinks-aware > > Um. Which soft links? > > * The ls that comes with the shareware xfs program can list Unix > features like this, provided we are talking about a Unix nfs-mounted > file system in the first place. Nope, i mean FAT.. > * I wrote a program a while back to create _hard_ links (which the > standard chkdsk doesn't like... not too much ofg a problem now 'cause > chkdsk has to be rewritten anyway, for long names). Normal directory > listing program work with my hard links. ..and what happens when you _write_ to one of those files? > * Win95 has "shortcuts" that are much like soft links. I've been > thinking of supporting them in some of my utilities - already they can > be recognised as a shortcut, but still the resolution of the link isn't > used in listing the file size, attributes, etc. Win95 has poor support > for its own shortcuts - only in the GUI, not command.com, and if a .lnk > file is renamed Win95 won't realise it is a shortcut. ..and i'd like those to be supported too.. > * I would really like to support soft links when running OpenDOS under > Linux via dosemu... I have written a program for fun that lists such [dd] Actually i did not mean one of those - i mean that small TSR softlink driver (was posted to the list a month ago or so) > > b) device files-aware > > c) LFN-aware > > The LONGNAME TSR that extends OpenDOS 7.01 to use Win95-style long > filenames is usable by the new COMMAND.COM for OpenDOS, by the Win95 > COMMAND.COM (need to use SETVER), and by 4DOS. My new XDIR command > uses long filenames when needed and can be made to output in Unix "ls" > format (either SET COMPATIBILITY=UNIX before running the command, or > use /FORM=Unix as an option, e.g. DEFKEY LS=C:\MARK\XDIR /F=U $* or > something like that). Hmm sounds great.. [dd] > When I've finished upgrading my XDIR to use shortcuts and Unix links via > XFS, I'll release it generally. What about those softlinks? And - device files? --- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Must be a visit from the dead.. _| o |_ | | _|| | / _||_| |_ |_ |_ CU in Hell .......... Arkan#iD |_ o _||_| _||_| / _| | o |_||_||_|