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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Arp 1.1 bug (Re: Using RAW: device)
Message-ID: <2209@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 88 11:38:21 GMT
References: <7727@rama.UUCP> <4106@cbmvax.UUCP> <2174@sugar.UUCP> <4121@cbmvax.UUCP>
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In article <4121@cbmvax.UUCP>, steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats) writes:
> In article <2174@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >Oh yeh, while we're on the subject of incompatibilities with AmigaDOS, how
> >about adding one:
> >
> >1> list ; blush
> >devs                         Dir rwed Tomorrow  20:58:34
> >s                            Dir rwed Monday    20:59:30
> >ben.blish                    190 rwed Future    20:56:47
> >...                                   ^^^^^^^^^
> >                                      This column here is a little less
> >than informative. Would it be too much trouble to ask for something like
> >25-JUN-88? It'd fit in *exactly* the same space.

> I think you meant the list command, not dir.  Anyway, all you have to do is
> say "list dates" and all your yesterdays, todays, tommorows and futures will
> be displayed numerically.

> 	Steve (RTFM) Beats

I RTFM:

Options available:

	DATES	Displays dates in the form DD-MMM-YY (the default unless
		you use "QUICK").

	NODATES	Does not display date and time information.

Now then, this entry says that the default behaviour for the LIST command is
to list dates in the form DD-MMM-YY. It's one thing to say RTFM, but you have
to play with the options a bunch and figure out what they really mean. I never
hit this one.

I presume TFM will be improved for 1.3, so we can actually UTFM (understand
TFM) when we RTFM.

I'm not alone in this misapprehension, by the way. The ARP list command behaves
the way I thought the *real* list behaved. Neither behave the way the manual
describes. Oh well... ARP LIST joins ARP COPY in oblivion, and here's hoping
the next ARP LIST behaves the way the manual says... 
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