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From: brant@uf.msc.umn.edu (Gary Brant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: This here fast LS thang
Keywords: Directory Lister
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Date: 9 Mar 89 00:29:41 GMT
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In article <732@cord.UUCP> nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock) writes:
>
>Yeah, this LS thang is fast.  But it's so darn weird I don't know if I can
>deal with it.  It beats the Manx LS (which I'm quite happy with overall) 
>for speed, but it lists the directories from left to right.  I mean, it looks
>like it prints the whole left column, then the next column, and so on, so the
>whole thing just sort of sweeps on to the screen.  I'm just not used to seeing 
>stuff like this on a text screen.
>
>Anyone else find it disconcerting?
>

Yeah I found it to be distracting.  I would have kept it anyways except
for the fact that it writes directly to the screen instead of stdout.
This makes it sort of useless for feeding filter chains, etc.

Shame.  It sure is fast.


-Gary Brant