Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MKS ls -C slowness (was: Re: Unix emulation alternatives ... )
Summary: -C option will be added into ls
Message-ID: <417@mks.UUCP>
Date: 29 Feb 88 14:28:02 GMT
References: <811@athos.rutgers.edu> <2330@cognos.UUCP> <35@dcs.UUCP>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
Lines: 14

In article <35@dcs.UUCP>, wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) writes:
> It's slow because "ls -C" uses "c.exe" to columnize its output.  I wish
> though that the MKS "ls" had the "-C" option built-in rather than using
> an external program.  

Your wish is our command.  :-) We have had enough comments about this
that the next version of ls will have the columnizer built in, instead
of calling c.exe. We're still testing it, though, so please don't call
for it now.
-- 
     Gerry Wheeler                           Phone: (519)884-2251
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