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From: iand@labtam.labtam.oz (Ian Donaldson)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Greg McGary's mkid, lid, and eid package
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Date: 4 Dec 90 06:01:33 GMT
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tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) writes:
>If there are a lot of people using it, perhaps we should get together via
>email, merge our enhancements, and post a newer version.

We use it all the time.  Bewt for humungous kernel sources (like SVR4).

>Enhancements I have made include:

We added a 'mid' tool that brings up more(1) or $PAGER on the files
just like eid(1) does.  (I have PAGER="less -MC")

We too would be interested in enhancements and bug fixes.  

In partiticular, 'mkid -u' doesn't work reliably, corrupting the database.  

Also, something is wrong with mkid's hash algorithm and it goes into 
infinite loops every now and again... always on the same source file.  
I put in a trap for that case so that it aborts, but it really need
fixing properly.

We also fixed a few miscellaneous bugs.

I would be willing to share my enhancements, but unfortunately
I have no time to do a merge.

Ian D