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From: tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: four column sorted directory listings
Message-ID: <5160056@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Oct 89 20:22:34 GMT
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Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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xanthian@well.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>Ever get sick of seeing your directory listing blast off the screen while
>you're trying to read it?  Wish you had a dir that behaved a bit more like
>ls?  This is pretty pathetic, but it does work.

...

>The name was chosen as a replacement for a very nice public domain routine
>"ld" which provided listings better because directory names were highlighted,
>worse because they were unsorted, and unacceptable because it had a huge,
>repeating with every run, memory leak.

Hmmm.  Is that the same "ld" I've been using the past 18 months or so?
Haven't been aware of a huge memory leak -- but will look for it (thought
I would have noticed in this time :-).  But mine does indeed have a
"sort" option, and a whole lot of others (like recursive, ...) set by
appended "-" flags.  I think a "-?" lists the option flags available.
The "ld" I'm using was written by Andry Rachmat, I believe.

>Enjoy!

>well!xanthian xanthian@well.sf.ca.us
>Kent, the man from xanth, now just another echo from The Well.
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