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Re: LYNX-DEV DIRED mods
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Nelson Henry Eric |
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Re: LYNX-DEV DIRED mods |
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Sun, 17 Nov 1996 15:15:49 +0900 (JST) |
> testing the Klaus' DIRED mods, and they do seem to improve the behavior of
> DIRED at least on my linux box (working of HP-UX build as I type). I
> *DID* however notice some odd behavior in DIRED. Below are my comments on
Klaus did the fixes requested. I have to confess though that I am guilty
of not testing DIRED enough to find the other lurking problems. Normally
since I don't have permission outside of my home directory to do anything,
I never use the ../ link and never try to move directories. Well, bad news!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> or HP-UX. You could tag but not untag. It also seems to be a lot faster
> coming up with the initial directory. The only problem I see with it in
Still seems sluggish to me if there are a lot of files in the directory, but
then everything is slow on my machine.
> quick perusal is that when you are in the root directory, you still get a
> ../ in the file list although Klaus removed the one at the top of the
> screen. Trying to go above the root directory has strange effects on the
When I first do g => . => CR, both link 1 (at the top of the page) and link 2
(the first in the file list) are `../'. If we want Unix-like display then
link 1 should be `.' and link 2 should be `..', although `.' is sort of sense-
less. When I hit link 1 or 2, I go up one directory, but the name of the
directory is not correct, i.e., it should say `/home/kyoin/', but it says
`/home/kyoin/nelsonhe/..'. Strangely when I go up two or three directories
the name becomes correct, namely `/home' and then `/'. As Hiram says, `../'
is a link even in root. Each time you hit `../' in root, another `../' is
added to the string of the directory name.
The real problem came when I was testing the m)ove function on tagged
directories in a directory outside of $HOME. Lynx crashed with the following
messages, 1) When I pressed return without adding anything to the prompt about
where to move:
mv: can't mv directories across file systems
A Fatal error has occurred in Lynx Ver. 2.6
[...]
Lynx now exiting with signal: 11
and 2) When I input `../' to the prompt where to move:
mv: /home/kyoin/hogehoge/: rename: Permission denied
A Fatal error has occurred in Lynx Ver. 2.6
[...}
Lynx now exiting with signal: 11
Unfortunately, this behavior is not consistant over all file systems. It
seems to only happen in the /home directory, which is mounted on another
machine. (I'm not at all sure of the terminology. All I know is that
df gives the following result. The first two are on `ws01'.)
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a 15007 4065 9442 30% /
/dev/sd0g 152047 133901 2942 98% /usr
ws02:/home 1278086 656626 493652 57% /home
Yes, I'd have to agree that DIRED needs work. Still, I'm game to having the
mods in the the update file set. Isn't that what development's about? __Henry
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