Re: Patch for "mv -s" option

Brendan Byrd/SineSwiper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > + All source file names must be absolute (starting with @samp{/}) unless the > + destination files are in the current directory. This seems like a serious limitation. Can't you remove it, by using canonicalize_file_name say? Also, what happe

Re: dd patch to output transfer rate, byte count, and time

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Personally I don't think sending SIGUSR1 is a user friendly interface I agree. Also, its implementation isn't portable: it assumes that stdio is reentrant, which isn't true in general. This should get fixed at some point. But it's not just SIGUSR1. I think this beh

Re: dd patch to output transfer rate, byte count, and time

On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 10:57:51PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > In theory this change might break some scripts. Does anybody think > this will be a problem in practice? If so, I suppose we could enable > the new behavior only conditionally. Personally, I think people worry too much about breakin

Re: Improve on the Vi editor

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Dimieari Macaulay wrote: >'am happy to join the Linux family.As a programmer,I would wish to send >in some few contributions: [snip] Glad that you've taken an interest in improving the tools which ship with whichever Linux distribution you've found, but this mailing list real

Re: Patch for "mv -s" option

Paul Eggert wrote: > The mailing list supports attachments (e.g., see ) but your email lacked one when I got it, as does the archived copy . Let's try this a

Improve on the Vi editor

'am happy to join the Linux family.As a programmer,I would wish to send in some few contributions: 1.there should be Vi menus for program execution other than existing to the shell prompt for shell script execution; 2.what is the maximum lenght of the vi variable; 3.what does the various col

Re: dd patch to output transfer rate, byte count, and time

Paul Eggert wrote: The Debian unstable version of "dd" also outputs a total byte count, seconds taken, and transfer rate. This is an often-asked-for feature, and seems useful. I installed this implementation instead, which I wrote from scratch. The Debian version suppresses this new output if PO