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From: edwest@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Dr. Edmund West)
Date: Sun, 31-Jan-88 14:03:07 EST
Message-ID: <1988Jan31.140307.15273@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Subject: Suggestions for Irv Hoff's SD program
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Keywords: SD

TO: Irv Hoff

  I apologize for posting this generally, but I do not have Irv Hoff's
correct network address. Since Irv is still actively developing the SD
program (version 128 is now available), I thought I would send him the
following suggestions.
(1) Support options $1, $2, $3 and $4 which specify the number of
    columns for the listing. I use version 111 of SD which has this
    feature (almost), but it seems to have been dropped from later
    versions.
(2) Support an option to suppress headers and trailers. [Items 1 and 2
    together simplify the post processing of an editable disk copy.]
(3) Support an option which suppresses individual file data, leaving
    only summary information. The summary data could be total number
    of files and their sizes for each user area and for the disk as a
    whole.
(4) Make the default file name and extensions consistent. 'SD' trans-
    lates to 'SD *.*', but (a) 'SD A' is interpreted as 'SD A.<null>'
    (rather than 'SD A.*', and (b) 'SD .B' is interpreted as 'SD <nul>.B'
    (rather than 'SD *.B').
(5) When the screen fills and the user is prompted for MORE, accept
    <space> for a new page and <return> for a single line (a la the
    unix more program).