[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <an88g6F66jaU1 at mid.individual.net>,
	billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> In article <kemjhk$v46$1 at dont-email.me>,
> 	Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>> On 2013-02-03 21:04:06 +0000, Bill Gunshannon said:
>> 
>>> Is TO.COM a DCL Script?  Can someone send me a copy?  If not, is there
>>> a help or something for TO.COM that would tell me what it does?  Might
>>> be fun to try and duplicate it. (assuming I don't find that there is
>>> already someting to do this in Unix.)
>> 
>> http://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v80/to/
>> 
> 
> Thanaks, I'll see what I can come up with.

Impressive endeavour.  I doubt I will be writting one for Unix.  Why?
It is much more complex than what I originally thought and would take
a good deal of time to design and code.  The fact that it doesn't
already exist in Unix pretty much shows the lack of desire for a
program to specifically do it.  Much of what it does is already there
in command history and wild card expansion.  I frequently use command
history to jump back and forth between directories (although that is
seldom necessary when I can have a windoow open pointed at any and
all directories I may need at a given point in time).  And with the
builtin wild card expansion I frequently jump between directories by
typing very short strings.  In fact, I tend to create directories for
projects I work on with an eye towards maximizing this feature.  I
could probably throw together a "directory history" feature in an hour
or two, but to match TO.COM would take a lot more ans, as I said, in
the Unix world it would not be worth it cause I dubt anyone would use it.
I certainly wouldn't.  have to look for some other cool project. I
have been thinking of firing up a VS3100 again and maybe looking at
an updated Emacs for VMS.  Who knows.

bill

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