Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 18:56:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org>, FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: 4 CDs set [ls-alR.tgz file? contents.zip] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10204071848450.64965-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020405223714.J66676-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Peter Leftwich wrote: > On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Annelise Anderson wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Peter Leftwich wrote: > > PL> If the FreeBSD-CD-Creators are nice people (and I'm sure they are well-intentioned people at the very least), there ought to be an "ls-alR.tgz" file of the entire contents of the CDROM, similar to what one finds on the usual ftp site. Yes? > > They are nice, well-intentioned, and more. > > Oops, I didn't mean to imply non-niceness in my facetiousness. > > prompt# renice -99999999999999 `cat /var/run/cdcreators.pid` > > :) > > > You will find a file called filename.txt in the root directory of each CD-ROM. > > Annelise > > -- > > Annelise Anderson > > Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC > > Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com > > Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ > > Might I make a suggestion (for dissemination among the cd-creating body)? > [1] Call the file something less Micro$ofty and more like "contents.txt" or > better yet, [2] Call the file "contents.zip" with a symlinked file called > "contents.gz" actually wait these are two different compression alggies. > Oh and [3] maybe a simple sh script could be installed to simply the "find" > command; such a script would do the equivalent of an "ls -alR | grep -i" > command and would return the full path. :) > The iso9660 format uses filenames accessible in systems (e.g., MS-DOS) that require "8.3" style filenames. A plain text file also means that utilities for decompressing, on whatever OS the CD is being used, are unnecessary. This seems to me to be a good thing (tm). You should be able to put a FreeBSD CD in a CD drive and open any of the files with a .txt or .TXT extension, although I find on Windows systems they work better with wordpad than notepad for both viewing and printing. The command-line call for wordpad is "write <filename>". Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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