[openbeos] Re: Expander's behaviour (was: unrar)
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:02:29 +0100 CET
> [snip]
> > >
> > Actually -v isn't necessary when extracting. When listing, it gives
> > us
> > extra info about files.
> > I don't understand why you want to change the listing command from
> > -tvf
> > to -tf
>
> Because the long listing never fits on one line in expander, and
> makes
> it hard to see which information belongs to which file. Also, as
> permissions aren't really implemented in BFS anyway, it is kinda
> useless
> to see that data.
They *are*
Just you never see them in effect cause you're logged in as root
whatever your $USER is (rtfm /bin/id).
> Finally I think BeOS/Haiku should be obvious for non-geeky types -
> if you want to know the contents of a zip, it means you want to know
> the files inside it. I question how important it is to know the
> permissions on those files.
That's a better reason.
How about a "verbose listing" checkbox in the prefs (would need 2
option sets in the rules though).
François.
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