Re: Normal mode commands

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Friday 26 December 2003 00:24, Marco Gerards wrote:
> The file size and the filename.  One line for every file or
> directory.  Do you want me to add something else?

No, but I thought you would want more information like permissions.

> > No, most commands should be implemented in modules. Why not?
>
> In that case I wonder why the terminal and rescue commands are not in
> a module.

Don't trust the current implementation so much. Even PUPA has a number 
of "bad things" due to lack of time.

The basic is to make things as dynamic as possible. So you should only 
include commands which are required to load other modules in the normal 
mode itself.

I think rescue should be in the normal mode by default, because this 
command is essential if the normal mode goes mad. The command terminal 
could be in a separate module.

> > So if you want to keep the same behavior, I'd like to change the
> > name of this command.
>
> Sure.  What would be a good name?

I have no good idea. Do you have any?

> > pupa> ls (*)/boot/vmlinuz*
>
> This looks interesting.
>
> > I don't know if this syntax is good, though.
>
> I don't see any problems, why?

The part "(*)" looks ugly to me.

> > > This works all the same as bash so most users don't need to learn
> > > a new set of commands.  I think set and unset should be added to
> > > command.c because they are quite important, right?
> >
> > Maybe.
>
> Depending on what?

I don't know. I'm just not sure.

> Right.  How will root and rootverify differ for PUPA?

Please forget rootverify. It is not very useful.

Okuji