Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!parsec!ctvax!uokvax!andree From: andree@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Pushd/Popd shorthand - (nf) Message-ID: <5118@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Jan-84 23:00:13 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5118 Posted: Mon Jan 23 23:00:13 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Jan-84 09:39:27 EST Lines: 25 #R:sri-arpa:-1545900:uokvax:6100015:000:1216 uokvax!andree Jan 22 06:45:00 1984 If you really want a tool for browsing - A couple of years ago, I rewrote the Purdue help system. The result displays the current directory [options: all files/no . files, sorted/ unsorted], and asks you to pick a file. You pick a file by name/number (You have to pick files with numeric names by number). If the file is a directory, it cd's to it and starts over. It checks for various magic numbers at the beginning of files, and doesn't show you things that are probably binary (this was a HELP system to start with - if you really want to look a the file, you can say !cat !), but says "file is ". It will nroff/not nroff files that start with a ".", etc. A truly nice toy for browsing through the contens of tapes that come in the mail. As a last touch, the directory menus were written to stderr, whereas files were written to stdout, so "b directory | lpr" let you browse things to the printer. Trouble is, it was written for v6, hacked to v7, and then ported to 4.1. Someday Real Soon Now, I'll drag it out and rewrite it to 4.2, with hooks for 4.1/Unix V. If you're interested in copies, let me know. I'll do something about getting them out when I fix it.