Chdir problem

[Bill Vermillion]

On Wed, Sep 01 01:27 , GCC Consulting moved his mouse, rebooted for the 
change to take effect, and then said:" 

>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> > Of Fairlight
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:43 PM
> > To: filePro List
> > Subject: Re: Chdir problem
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:13:02PM -0400, Bill Vermillion may 
> > or may not have proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> > > 
> > > I will not accept 'This is a Windows system" as an excuse for not 
> > > running cron. Go ahead an run cron. And you can run most of the
> > 
> > I didn't realise someone was selling Fairlight Pills[tm].  :)
> > 
> > mark->

> Bill didn't want to accept my statement that I wanted to keep
> everything vanilla.

> I have not worked in a *nix environment in over 15 years.
> I have the "free" *nix CD-ROM from Microsoft but have not
> installed on my system as yet.

I don't know about that.  I do know that I got a free server eval
and I don't recall the details.

The SFU 3.5 - was released in January.  As far as I am aware it
is only downloadable from MS.

> One of the reasons I don't want to use outside programs is
> I will have to install & maintain them. I only use outside
> programs when there is no solution from within filepro. I
> have used a old shareware program from PC Magazine called
> Browse for many years. I renamed the program file cat.exe as
> I found it easier to type. This program displays a text file
> 132 characters wide with left & right scrolling as well as
> forward & back. I would send a report to file and then "cat" it
> to screen. Would love this functionality with the -pv option.
> Although an old dos program, it still works with WinXP.

I'll accept that argument.  You originally said 'cron' was not
available on Windows - and that was what started my reply.

If you want a program that moveds top to bottom or scrolls
left to right 'less' is also in the SFU toolkit.

But since you haven't used Unix for 15 years, then you probably
don't want to put this program in place.

Bill
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