Re: cwsort et al

Is there a demand for a directory sorter? If so i will compile mine, the one
from defrag, as a binary and set it up for download.

Imre

----- Original Message -----
From: George Bell <[email protected]>
To: FreeDos <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 2:10 AM
Subject: RE: [fd-dev] cwsort et al


> Eric Auer wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >I am currently greatly reducing the amount of shareware on my system,
> >but you are right: Shareware works like "use it for a while and if you
> >like it, pay the registrxation fee". If you like shareware, LFNSORT is
> >a shareware directory sort tool that handles long filenames.
> >
> >CWSORT sorts the lines in a text file. It was written to be fast and
> >to allow sorting of large files, as DOS sort was limited to files of
> >32 or 64k of size or something. This is what I understand CWSORT to
> >be, maybe I am wrong.
> >
> >Did you already check
> >http://www.simtel.net/pub/msdos/dirutl/
> >for a directory sorter? By the way, if you only want the listing
> >to be sorted, I recommend that you use the DOS version of ls. There
> >are other freeware sorted directory listers on my harddisk as well.
> >If you want the directory itself sorted (why?), you would of course
> >use an actual dirsorter.
> >
> >http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/43570.html maybe?
> >http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/5466.html looks quite interesting!
> >http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/43628.html is a dirsorter.
> >http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/43645.html is a dir lister with sort.
> >http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/43681.html is a dir sorter/editor.
> >http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/10026.html interesting sorted dir lister.
> >
> ><Breaking news: I have a tool to change the screen mode to 30 lines,
> > as 50 lines (43 on EGA) use a too small font for my taste. Called
vga30.com
> > and derived from Linux sources>
> >
> >http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/43791.html yet another dir-with-sort...
> >
> >More of the same:
> >http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/43937.html
> >http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/43936.html
> >http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/43932.html
> >http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/44031.html
> >http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/43851.html
> >http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/43839.html
> >http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/43822.html (with LFN)
> >http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/43835.html
> >http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/43834.html
> >
> >Stuff on:
> >http://members.cox.net/dos/dir2.htm
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Eric
> >
> >
>
> ----------
> list options/archives/etc.: http://www.topica.com/lists/fd-dev
> unsubscribe: send blank email to: [email protected]
>
>