Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pacbell!pbhyf!rob
From: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm improvement suggestion
Keywords: Elm, folders
Message-ID: <6050@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 17 Sep 89 00:23:35 GMT
References: <1225@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Reply-To: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <1225@mitisft.Convergent.COM> jon@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Jon Bork) writes:
+Maybe when you ask Elm to list folders, the functionality could be added
+to list the folders in "ls" format ie: the way that the ls command lists 
+files.
+I've got 30 or so folders and the first folders scroll off the screen.

Elm is hard-coded to use "ls -C" in your folders directory. At least
of my systems (flavors of Sys V), this *does* produce multiple column
output. Perhaps if this doesn't produce multiple column output on all
systems, this needs to be configurable.
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