--- Aaron Ardiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Craig Belson wrote: > > OK, a couple of quick questions while I think of > them: > > > > 1) What's the difference between CW academic > edition > > and professional edition? Is it anything worth > > anything, and will having the academic edition > let me > > qualify for the price break on v.9 that I've > heard > > about? (There is an upgrade price break on v.9 > when it > > comes out, right? *s*) > > i believe the biggest difference is the price :) > > if you are a student, you get the academic > version, otherwise > you pay for the full professional edition. dont > know if there > are extra bits inside the professional edition. > doubt it. > Fair enough - when Ben reads this, hopefully he'll confirm it... :-)
> > 2) Does anyone know if script _________ will work > in > > cygwin? My ls -C is currently broken(don't ask, > just > > take me at my word on this one - it's like a dir > in > > DOS, not a dir/w), and even though I just had the > man > > page for ls presented to me in another forum by a > > highly esteemed colleague (*g*), I'd like to show > him > > that it actually doesn't work for some reason. I > > don't know why it doesn't work, and I found > something > > that gives me an output that's not like > dir(although > > it escapes my mind at the moment), but I'd just > like > > to script it and post the output - maybe someone > will > > see something and can alert me to it... (can also > be > > read: I'm at work right now and can't test this, > since > > I don't have my laptop with me - before I go home > and > > waste my time, can someone tell me if it works or > not? > > *s*) > > well, ls -C may not replicate dir /w exactly. but, > if > you are using cygwin, there is nothing shopping > you > having: > > cmd /C myscript.bat > > being done in your make file (ie: use cmd to > process) > *g* > > > (BTW, Waulok(I believe), I haven't tried piping it > yet > > - I'll try that when I get home) > > > dir /w: > --- > > [.] [..] [dkjr] [dkung] > [phire] > [hoards] [lemmings] [maryobros] > [oktopus] [parashoot] > [hexxagon] [!unreleased] [deity3D] > 0 File(s) 0 bytes > 13 Dir(s) x,xxx,xxx,xxx bytes free > > ls -C: > -- > !unreleased dkjr hexxagon lemmings oktopus > phire > deity3D dkung hoards maryobros parashoot > > i can see a visual difference straight away.. > maybe your script > is using/parsing the [] somehow? > Well, as far as I'm concerned... oh, hell, let's put this in terms of the language I'm programming in here at work: 0010 IF LS$=DIR$ THEN LET LSDASHC$=DIRSLASHW$ Bonus points if you can guess the language... :-) But seriously - as far as I'm concerned, ls and dir are the same, as well as ls -C and dir/w (for my purposes, anyway) - but what did you mean about the []? you mean the ones surrounding the directories in the dir output? If so, you got me - although I'm gonna have to try playing around with that cmd command, see what I can get out of it... -C __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
