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diff --git a/Hurd/TranslatorWishList.mdwn b/Hurd/TranslatorWishList.mdwn index 6e00c6e5..c8917bbd 100644 --- a/Hurd/TranslatorWishList.mdwn +++ b/Hurd/TranslatorWishList.mdwn @@ -70,6 +70,24 @@ Am I off my rocker, or does an IMAP/POP translator sound like a good idea? It wo ## <a name="UUEncode"> </a> UUEncode -How about a UUEncode translator for those places you can only store ASCII. Combine this with a NNTP translator and store your data in someone's Usenet archive. Or since, (as far as I know), there are no size limitations on file names in the Hurd, why not have a translator whose underlying store is a file name. (Now ls becomes cat). +How about a UUEncode translator for those places you can only store ASCII. Combine this with a NNTP translator and store your data in someone's Usenet archive. Or since, (as far as I know), there are no size limitations on file names in the Hurd, why not have a filesystem translator whose underlying store is a file name. (Now ls becomes cat). --- [[Main/GregBuchholz]] - updated 08 Oct 2003 +## <a name="Computation"> Computation </a> + +This is from the revenge of the command-line department. Make a directory translator whose contents are a result of the computation specified in the directory name. Here's an example... + + $ settrans -a /comp /hurd/computationfs + $ cd "/comp/3+4" + $ ls -l + total 0 + -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody users 0 Oct 16 11:41 7 + $ + $ cd "/comp/sqrt(2)" + $ ls -l + total 0 + -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody users 0 Oct 16 11:42 1.4142135623731 + $ + +...etc. Now think about your favorite GUI HTML editor and using File->Open on the following directory name, ``"/comp/for i in $( find / -name *.html ); do ln -s $i `basename $i`;done"`` Which would produce a directory listing with soft links to all of the \*.html files on your system. You could have all of the comforts of the shell from within that little File->Open dialog box. + +-- [[Main/GregBuchholz]] - updated 16 Oct 2003 |