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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Yet another directory lister, part 1 of 2
Message-ID: <704@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 88 03:20:39 GMT
References: <2605@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu.UUCP (Russ Nelson)
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In article <2605@saturn.ucsc.edu> spcecdt@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Space Cadet) writes:
>Who knows, maybe it does something the others don't...
>it does recursive listings, various sorts, searches for files
>with specific attributes, etc.

Yeah, and it does it slowly, too.  I made the following patch and it runs
as fast as the built-in dir and it does all the neat gizzies, too.  Now if
only someone could modify it to use getswitchar() so that it works if you
use switchar=-.

*** bak/dimain.c
--- dimain.c
**************
*** 39,44
  EntryListType EntryList;	/* Matching files found in a dir */
  char *Vars[80];		/* Value of env var */
  
     setcbrk(1);	/* Turn on cntrl-brk checking at all DOS interupts */
     More(-1);	/* Initialize More() to disabled */
     Files = NULL;	/* Initialize Files to null list */
--- 39,45 -----
  EntryListType EntryList;	/* Matching files found in a dir */
  char *Vars[80];		/* Value of env var */
  
+    setvbuf(stdout, NULL, _IOLBF, 0x200);
     setcbrk(1);	/* Turn on cntrl-brk checking at all DOS interupts */
     More(-1);	/* Initialize More() to disabled */
     Files = NULL;	/* Initialize Files to null list */
-- 
-russ
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