Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!hoss!fergvax!231b3678
From: 231b3678@fergvax.unl.edu (Phil Dietz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: NewList 4.8 Bug!
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.215300.3398@hoss.unl.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 91 21:53:00 GMT
References: <18d5195c.ARN1313@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au>
Sender: news@hoss.unl.edu (Network News Administer)
Organization: Comp Sci and Engr, Univ. of Nebr.
Lines: 58

In article <18d5195c.ARN1313@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au writes:
>Phil Dietz's NEWLIST 4.8 came through comp.binaries.amiga today, and I eagerly
>UUDECODED it, and read the doco [whatever happened to suck it and see!  :^)],
>and then proceeded to have a fiddle with it.
>
>First I tried NewList (NL) on my RAM: directory, and it worked fine. Then on
>my large DLOAD: directory :
>
>168 files - 1 dirs - 14516 blocks - 7235640 bytes 
>
>Which was GREAT. I was so SICK of LIST only telling me block size, and having
>to guesstimate by dividing block count by two, and multiplying by 1000.
>
>Then I did 'NL Ram: -q sd' (Forgetting to put the '-' on the sd flag) and I
>got a Software Failure! Sigh.
>
>Guru 00000005 (Divide by Zero). This is repeatable - if you use NewList
>with the -q option, and specify a file in the path that doesn't exist, NewList
>will cause a 'divide by zero' software failure each and every time. Oh well.
>
>I really like NL though, and if that bug's fixed, I'll even send my dollar
>over! :-)
>
>Minor documentation hassle:
>
>      s  Sort by name                  sd  Sort by file size
>     sd  Sorts by Date                  h  No header
>
>So, 'sd' sorts by date, and 'sd' sorts by file size, eh! :-). The
>documentation goes on to explain that 'ss' was the flag for size. I guess
>Phil just 'Snapped' his help-screen into the doco, because the error is in the
>program itself (NewList ? will show the same thing).
>
>My favourite flag combo (so far) is '-qs -v'. It's a neat program.
>
>Thanks Phil. (Now fix that /0 bug!)
>
>Dac
>David Andrew Clayton. // _l _  _ dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au    *or*|I post.I am.
>Canberra, Australia.\X/ (_](_l(_ ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au!prolix!dac@munnari.oz

Danke Schon for your bug report!
 
I tried a LOT of bug hunting but came up clean.  Lucky you found a major!

I'll splat it today.
 
If anyone else has any more WANTED options, tell me now.  It's getting
pretty big, so I really don't plan any many more versions (probably two more).
 
Thanx again
Phil Dietz


---                    
   Nothing but the best;                                     Phil Dietz 
     Panic Zone, Howard Stern,                 231b3678@fergvax.unl.edu       
       an Amiga, and a couple a babes.                Univ. of Nebraska