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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!warp.cris.com!Da_worm From: Da_worm@cris.com (DAWORM) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Unix/FreeBSD versions of DOS utilities Date: 7 May 1995 23:43:17 GMT Organization: Concentric Research Corporation Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3ojlul$r3c@warp.cris.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: voyager-fddi.cris.com Keywords: FreeBSD, DOS Does anyone know of a method/program to simulate some of the DOS directory enhancement utilities. Namely, what I am looking for are PROMPT and NCD (Norton Change Directory) and RIR (Rock Island Directory). For those who totally disdain DOS (and if I loved it so much, I wouldn't have installed FreeBSD!), these programs do the following. PROMPT - Lets you set a customized command prompt with features like showing the current directory (with tree all the way back to the root, as in "c:\progs\foo\bar"), setting color, showing date and time, ect. I can change my text prompt in my login script, but have yet to find a way to make it show me the directory I am in. NCD - This program, when first ran, creates a database of sorts of all of the directories on the drive. Then, by typing "ncd dirname" it change the directory to the first/closest match to dirname it finds. So if I were in "/usr/bin" I could type "ncd etc" and be in "/etc" without having to type "cd ../../etc". (You can see where this would be usefule from deep in the X11 hiearchy.) RIR - Actually, ls handles 90% of RIR, but the one thing RIR does is allow you to see the contents of archived files. It shows the archive name, then indents the contents. I apologize in advance if any of this sounds stupid, but once you get used to something, it's hard to give it up! Jeff.