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On Feb 4, 12:15 pm, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> In article <an88g6F66j... at mid.individual.net>,
>         billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>
> > In article <kemjhk$v4... at dont-email.me>,
> >    Stephen Hoffman <seaoh... 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?

Thanks!

> 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

OK.

> builtin wild card expansion I frequently jump between directories by
> typing very short strings.  In fact, I tend to create directories for

Oh, I love that! I discovered it by accident, sort of. I knew there
was regular autocomplete, but one day I just happened to dream up the
idea of using wildcards. So I tried it, and it worked! \(^_^)/

> 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.

Well, if you change your mind about porting TO.COM, I don't need it
all. I just want to stop typing the same directories over and over
again and such, or opening lots of windows. Yes, there are all the
tricks, but I'd prefer it even easier, and mouse-free, especially
mouse-drag-free. Just having a command history with numbers that you
can use as arguments for cd and environment variables that you can use
for directories in commands would be very cool. The rest you can skip.
In detail:

One big part of it was dealing with the fact that I needed f$parse,
but it took a lot of effort to make it do what I wanted. For other VMS
stuff f$parse is pretty good. But not for this.

Also, I fixed the two major SET DEFAULT bugs, so you can skip that,
too.

I had to do a lot of work to make logical names work as well as they
do in TO.COM, and that, too, took a fair amount of effort, as there
are so many facets! And that, too, you can skip!

The two-step bit -- it might be nice, but not a biggie.

Oh, and I put in the function where you put the directory in the
prompt. I never wanted that for myself, but it seemed a popular thing
based on posts in this NG, so i added it. Myself, I prefer having the
hostname in the prompt. You can skip that, too.

And all the shortcuts are not needed.

Thanks!

>
> bill
>
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> billg... at cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
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