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Suggestions for fileutils

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From: Michael I Bushnell
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 06:28
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   From: jgp@moscom.com (Jim Prescott)
   Date: 6 Apr 92 20:02:16 GMT
   References: <9204022129.AA07149@prism.CS.ORST.EDU>

   Note that -f doesn't work as documented on Suns anymore.  You can no longer
   force something to be treated as a directory; getdents(2) cannot be coerced
   into treating a file as a directory.

This will be true in GNU as well, so it is fairly important to fix the
documentation. 

   The -f option is still useful for listing files in directory order
   (unsorted) and since it only works on true directories there is no
   longer any reason to turn off the -l, -s or -r flags (or any of the
   others that -f needed to turn off before that didn't make it into
   the man page).

Further, this is an annoying misfeature.  I suggest that -f be
redesignated "print in directory order", in other words, "don't sort",
and that it should only interact with the flags that force sorting.

	-mib
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From: mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
Subject: Suggestions for fileutils
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