Re: fdups: calling for beta testers

2005-02-27 Thread Patrick Useldinger
John Machin wrote: I've tested it intensively "Famous Last Words" :-) ;-) (1) Manic s/w producing lots of files all the same size: the Borland C[++] compiler produces a debug symbol file (.tds) that's always 384KB; I have 144 of these on my HD, rarely more than 1 in the same directory. Not sure wha

Re: fdups: calling for beta testers

2005-02-26 Thread John Machin
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:53:10 +0100, Patrick Useldinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tested it intensively "Famous Last Words" :-) >Thanks for your feedback! Here's some more: (1) Manic s/w producing lots of files all the same size: the Borland C[++] compiler produces a debug symbol file (

Re: fdups: calling for beta testers

2005-02-26 Thread Patrick Useldinger
Serge Orlov wrote: Or use exemaker, which IMHO is the best way to handle this problem. Looks good, but I do not use Windows. -pu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: fdups: calling for beta testers

2005-02-26 Thread Patrick Useldinger
John Machin wrote: Yes. Moreover, "WinZip", the most popular archive-handler, doesn't grok bzip2. I've added a zip file. It was made in Linux with the zip command-line tool, the man pages say it's compatible with the Windows zip tools. I have also added .py extentions to the 2 programs. I did how

Re: fdups: calling for beta testers

2005-02-26 Thread John Machin
Patrick Useldinger wrote: > John Machin wrote: > > > (1) It's actually .bz2, not .bz (2) Why annoy people with the > > not-widely-known bzip2 format just to save a few % of a 12KB file?? (3) > > Typing that on Windows command line doesn't produce a useful result (4) > > Haven't you heard of distut

Re: fdups: calling for beta testers

2005-02-26 Thread Serge Orlov
Peter Hansen wrote: > Patrick Useldinger wrote: >>> (9) Any good reason why the "executables" don't have ".py" >>> extensions on their names? >> >> (9) Because I am lazy and Linux doesn't care. I suppose Windows does? > > Unfortunately, yes. Windows has nothing like the "x" permission > bit, so yo

Re: fdups: calling for beta testers

2005-02-26 Thread Peter Hansen
Patrick Useldinger wrote: (9) Any good reason why the "executables" don't have ".py" extensions on their names? (9) Because I am lazy and Linux doesn't care. I suppose Windows does? Unfortunately, yes. Windows has nothing like the "x" permission bit, so you have to have an actual extension on the

Re: fdups: calling for beta testers

2005-02-26 Thread Patrick Useldinger
John Machin wrote: (1) It's actually .bz2, not .bz (2) Why annoy people with the not-widely-known bzip2 format just to save a few % of a 12KB file?? (3) Typing that on Windows command line doesn't produce a useful result (4) Haven't you heard of distutils? (1) Typo, thanks for pointing it out (2)(3

Re: fdups: calling for beta testers

2005-02-25 Thread John Machin
Patrick Useldinger wrote: > > fdups' homepage is at http://www.homepages.lu/pu/fdups.html, where > you'll also find a link to download the tar. > """fdups has no installation program. Just change into a temporary directory, and type "tar xfj fdups.tar.bz". You should also chown the files accordin

fdups: calling for beta testers

2005-02-25 Thread Patrick Useldinger
Hi all, I am looking for beta-testers for fdups. fdups is a program to detect duplicate files on locally mounted filesystems. Files are considered equal if their content is identical, regardless of their filename. Also, fdups ignores symbolic links and is able to detect and ignore hardlinks, whe