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Skriven 2012-09-07 08:38:55 av Roger Nelson (1:3828/7.0)
   Kommentar till text 3494 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
Ärende: Fidonews Vol29 no36 FrontPage
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On Thu Sep-06-2012 18:54, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to mark lewis:

 RW> 05 Sep 12 20:31, mark lewis wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>> A really nice piece of software to use for editing text files is
 RW>> had in XTREE or the windows version of it called ZTREE.

 ml> xtree and ztree are non-existent on *nix...

 RW> That's too bad. Ztree is a great file manipulator. It is easily the
 RW> best thing I've found for changing attributes, changing hidden to
 RW> seeable, changiing read-only to editable, changing dates, hex
 RW> editing, etc. Copying files to different folders and making a
 RW> folder to receive files if there isn't one at the destination.

I can do that using an 8k COM file and I've been using it for years.  I got it
out of OC Magazine back in the late 80s-early 90s 

 RW> This was the program that introduced me to 'read only, hidden'
 RW> files. My first move was to change all of those file RASH
 RW> attributes on such files as MSDOS.SYS and such and deleting them on
 RW> my first PC-286. I found out very quickly that in doing so, I just
 RW> deleted the files used by MSDOS 3.3 to run the system. 8^)

 RW> I'll bet the tech who reinstalled those files under warranty was
 RW> laughing his ass off at the novice who deleted them. That was 1986
 RW> and we've come a long way together, Xtree, Ztree and I.

 ml>  mc (midnight commander, a norton command clone) is a popular tool,

 RW> I wouldn't trust Norton with doing anything with my computers. I
 RW> was in too much of a hurry to get XP working the way I wanted it
 RW> and overlooked a check box that said, intall Norton antivirus
 RW> yes/no...had I paid attention it woulddn't have been installed.
 RW> I'll have to go back and remove it when I get XP and other software
 RW> and hardware working the way I want it. 

 RW> Microsoft's version of malware and antivirus software works so much
 RW> better.

 ml> though... but there are many *nix folks that do not use such...
 ml> besides, the only problem is that the files seem to be needing to use
 ml> the DOS CRLF EOL instead of the *nix LF EOL... something that a quick
 ml> run of UNIX2DOS can easily handle ;)

 RW> I've found that any kind of *nix isn't worth my time. OS/2 was a
 RW> real pain, Red Hat was too. I bought a cheap desktop (really slow
 RW> AMD processor) that had a version of *nix on it that was workable,
 RW> but I NIXed that and installed W98 on it. That slug-machine will
 RW> get the W2k drive once I get around to fixing it. Two slugs working
 RW> together should make for a really happy system.

Friends didn't let friends use RedHat.


Regards,

Roger 
--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+
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