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- From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
- Subject: Re: bugs in GNU file utils?
- References: <1992Jul20.131435.5815@relay.nswc.navy.mil> <rick.6.711671081@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <1992Jul21.035553.19209@unixg.ubc.ca>
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 22:14:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.035553.19209@unixg.ubc.ca> ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes:
- >with ls, mv etc:
- >
- >it won't do globbing of the form set: [stuff]
- >ie ls [a-z]* to list files starting with a to z.
- >maybe I'm assuming too much, but isn't it supposed to glob that?
-
- The globbing is (under Unix) done by the shell, not by the programs. The
- mentioned programs do the normal OS/2 filename globbing provided by the
- C library. If you want more advanced globbing, you need a Unix like
- shell for OS/2.
-
- >with ls:
- >ls -a won't list OS/2 hidden files (although I think it lists UNIX style
- >hidden files like .file). ls -a also complains about the file .. in the
- >root directory of a drive (it's not there, so ls shouldn't complain about
- >not finding it!)
-
- ls -a lists hidden files, but not system files. This makes a difference.
- Also, the .. bug occures only on HPFS root directories. But there *is* a
- .. directory returned by DosFind* even in the root, but you can't stat it.
-
- >question:
- >the old GNU dd used to take inf=0,1,2 or outf=0,1 etc to read a drive
- >as a block device. Has this been removed? I can't get it to work...
-
- This was removed because I never used it. I could put that back in.
- However, *if* it is put back in, some enhancements would be nice, such
- as accessing logical and physical drives (partitions vs. physical disks)
- differenly.
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
-
- /* Kai Uwe Rommel --- rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de */
-
- DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
- handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams
-