Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!comcon!roy From: roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Something else you can't do on the Mac Summary: LIST is the viewer of choice. Message-ID: <234@comcon.UUCP> Date: 3 Jan 90 12:56:05 GMT References: <1284@marlin.NOSC.MIL> <970@v7fs1.UUCP> <129727@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Jan2.194210.2304@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Organization: Computer Connection - Anchorage, Alaska Lines: 29 In article <1990Jan2.194210.2304@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, tdrinkar@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu (Terrell Drinkard) writes: > Anyone else have some suggestions? Particularly as they compare > and contrast with various Macintosh methods? I would like to hear > them, I think most of us can use either machine, though we all have > biases and probably use one machine much more than the other. Here > is an opportunity to see what is available. I use Vern Buerg's excellent LIST.COM and FV.COM. LIST (actually LIST PLUS, as I use the enhanced version) lets you look at a file almost any way you want. Wordstar filter, junk filter, doesn't cough on Unix EOL, wraps long lines, extracts directly from at least 4 archivers, so you can view directories and text within archives... (pausing for breath :-) It will even dial the phone from an on-screen number, using a COM1 modem. The archive tricks are done with FV. You can view _any_ file... binaries too. Use it to scan for questionable text in downloaded .exe's. The newest version of LIST just came out in c.b.i.p and there are many more options that I havn't touched on. It's very much worth the trouble to try it. I use it every day. (oh, and QEDIT is the text/programmer editor of choice for me... but that's another story, because you asked about viewers. :-) -- _R_o_y _M_. _S_i_l_v_e_r_n_a_i_l | UUCP: uunet!comcon!roy | "Every race must arrive at this #include ;#define opinions MINE | point in its history" SnailMail: P.O. Box 210856, Anchorage, | ........Mr. Slippery Alaska, 99521-0856, U.S.A., Earth, etc. |