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From: daniel@island.uu.net ((Dan Smith))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: drawtree for Unix/Sun/curses?
Message-ID: <1246@island.uu.net>
Date: 9 Dec 89 02:09:48 GMT
References: <5250@abaa.UUCP> <11976@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: daniel@island.uu.net ((Dan Smith))
Organization: Island Graphics, Marin County, California
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In article <11976@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Saligrama Subbarao) writes:
>    Here is a question I have been wanting to ask for a long time but
> always forgot to. WHY doesn't someone make a whole NORTON UTILITES
> for UNIX? I mean, it is SO easy to unerase files in MS-DOS. If UNIX
> is a superior operating system, why hasn't someone come up with a 
> qu command to unerase files, an ncd to change directories and some of
> the other goodies we get with the Norton Utilities 4.5 Advanced
> Edition?

	Vtree (and dtree) is a freely available PD program which shows the
subdirectory tree.  NCD is a very good program for Messy-Dos, and
it should not be that tough to implement under curses.  Dired is also
nice.

	UNIX [*] is superior to MS DOS in many ways; few would argue with
that...there are many ways of using aliases or otherwise replacing "rm"...one
of the quickest solutions is to make a ~/.trash directory, and make the alias:

alias rm	'mv -f \!* ~/.trash'

[*] especially BSD (fast file system, symlinks, etc.)

				dan
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