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