geoduck

[Allen B. Downey]

Hi.  This is a suggestion (not a bug report) regarding the
find utility.

I am working on a project called Geoduck that provides transparent
graphical interfaces for common UNIX commands.  By "transparent"
I mean that the interface doesn't hide the options and arguments
of the underlying commands; rather, it is intended to help users
understand the options and build complex commands.

I have written a prototype of an interface to find.  It handles almost
all of the options, tests, and actions of find, but it is limited
to simple combinations of tests (implicit and).  Nevertheless, I think
it is a convenient way to use find and try out its capabilities.

I am writing to find out who is currently maintaining find, and
whether I could ask that person to

1) look over the prototype and make suggestions for improvement

        you can download three tcl files from
        http://rosco.bu.edu/geoduck/find/
        and then execute find.tcl

2) suggest a way to distribute this interface and the others that
   are part of Geoduck.  So far I have worked on ls, ps, rm, grep,
   a2ps and jpegtran.  Soon I intend to move the project to soureforge
   and see if I can recruit people to work on other utilities.  I
   would also like to know if GNU would be interested in distributing
   Geoduck tools as part of the gnu-utils package.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Cheers,
Allen