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- Short: V2.7: zDir - The Ultimate Dir-command.
- Author: zznyyd@diku.dk (Finn Nielsen)
- Uploader: zznyyd@diku.dk (Finn Nielsen)
- Type: util/cli
- Requires: Kickstart V37 or greater
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- zDir V2.7 (13.2.98) by Finn Nielsen - ©1998 ZzNyYd! Design.
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- Changes from zDir V2.6 to zDir V2.7 - 'Friday the 13th' edition:
- Managed to screw up -S with some of the changes in V2.6, fixed.
- The ALTDIR option sometimes caused Enforcer hits, fixed.
- The switch NOBAR changed to the numeric argument SEPLEN.
- zDir will no longer enter directory links recursively.
- When COLUMNS is -1 zDir will now adjust the columns so that each column
- is only as wide as the longest entry in that column.
- New environment variable option, HIDE, will hide any pattern you want.
- New option, -h, hides files with 'h'-bit (FIBF_HIDDEN) set.
- New option, -a, cancels -h and HIDE.
- Option parsing routine allowed a space between -F and -C and their
- argument, fixed.
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- Introduction:
- When working a lot with a command line interface a good dir listing util
- is a must. However the output from the List command, supplied on the
- workbench disks, fills to much (I don't always need to know the state of
- the protections bits and creation date and time), the Dir command (also
- from the wb disks) doesn't give enough information and further more it
- simply looks ugly and it sucks, and so does most other dir listing utils.
- Some dir listing utils, such as xDir, xfdList and MList, comes in a
- software package and exists only to support that special software package,
- and, unfortunately, lack a lot of functionallity.
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- So here is zDir, a Dir listing util that has all the functionallity that
- is required by a real Dir command, a nice look, a list option + it supports
- the software packages xpk, xfd, fileid and MultiUser.
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- zDir can replace:
- ° C='s Dir.
- ° xDir (from the xpk-package).
- ° xfdList (from the xfd-package).
- ° WhatIs (from the FIDLIB-package).
- ° MList (from the MultiUser-package)
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- Features:
- ° Says "*** Ni." when you break it.
- ° 100% pure, can be made resident.
- ° Uses efficient memory-pools.
- ° Very fast assembly written sorting algorithm.
- ° Shows the full path of the directory that is read.
- ° Has a much nicer look than other dir-listing utils.
- ° Can output disksizes in Kb or MB.
- ° Sets the pr_Result2 field on error so the 'Why' command can be used.
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- Features accessible via options:
- ° List option (recognizes and ignores XFH-comments).
- ° Recursive option (can recursively read an entire directory tree).
- ° Sizecheck dirs option.
- ° Recognizes xpk-packed and powerpacked data-files internally.
- ° supports MultiUserFileSystem
- (group & other protection bits + owner/group field).
- ° Supports xfdmaster.library and FileID.library.
- ° Can recursively scan a directory tree for a specific filename
- or filecomment.
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- What zDir doesn't have:
- ° An LFORMAT argument: zDir is a Dir-command not a List-command!
- When you need LFORMAT use List or something.
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- 1197 775 35.2% 13-Feb-98 10:19:10 Authentication.asc
- 315 183 41.9% 13-Feb-98 10:18:50 file_id.diz
- 12512 7999 36.0% 13-Feb-98 08:48:46 zDir
- 35275 14315 59.4% 13-Feb-98 10:18:20 zDir.guide
- 2994 1506 49.6% 13-Feb-98 10:18:30 zDir.readme
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- 52293 24778 52.6% 14-Feb-98 01:02:58 5 files
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