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From: wsincc@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl (Wim van Dorst)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: New, featureful ls(1) for Minix
Summary: great, but two flaws
Message-ID: <812@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl>
Date: 25 Jul 89 11:39:13 GMT
References: <13398@ea.ecn.purdue.edu>
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Hello World,

Recently Mr. Housel submitted a ls which does columnar output and
other nice things like not showing .foo files. I compiled it with
no errors under 1.4a and found then the following two flaws.

When there are old files in a directory it should give as
response to ls -l the year of creation instead if the time. Using
for that localtime() it gives the year 3882 instead of 1982. My
localtime() returns the year in 19xx format, but ls.c assumes it
to be in a xx format and adds 1900. Easily fixed though.

The other flaw is that when doing a ls (with or without options)
_without_ arguments (like *.c or whatever) on a directory with quite 
some entries it just does nothing. No error and no result. When 
doing ls (with or without options, with or without arguments) on 
a directory with 1 to 40 entries it works perfect. I have no idea 
why. Who does? 

Probably not a flaw but I noticed: When doing ls -l on an empty
directory, shouldn't ls print something like   total 0?
Problably not a flaw either: when doing ls -lF should the -F
option be ignored?

Hoping for some response, met vriendelijke groeten,
Wim van Dorst (wsincc@tuerc3.urc.tue.nl)