On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 09:34:02PM +0800, eric pareja wrote:
> I've been wondering if there is any version of ls that works like dir
> in 4dos. For those of you unfamiliar with 4dos, before the advent of
> long filenames in DOS, it was not easy to have really descriptive
> filenames because of the 8.3 limitation. The 4dos solution[1] was to
> write its own version of dir that would display the filenames on the
> left followed by a longer description of the file on the right. The
> description of each file is stored in a file named "descript.ion"
> which is suppressed from a directory listing with the modified DIR.
>
> If there is, I'd be delighted to find out. If there is none, it seems
> like a good idea to implement. ;)
>
And I don't see it as being too hard to do either. It looks like the
perfect application for Berkeley DB/GDBM. The only thing will be
managing the .description.db files in every directory. Should also be
trivial to extend to Nautilus or <insert your favorite file manager
here>. Also has potential for producing a nice content-based search
engine for your files. :)
Let's do it! :D
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