On 6/13/05, Humberto Massa Guimarăes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not necessarily. Just as you have "tableout" as an external command > (built-in or not) in Monad, you can have a Perl module to print > things in a tabular manner, expanding the column sizes as needed > (based on HTML::Format::Table or somesuch)
But I doubt that'd be as simple as things are now. > Yes, and I withdraw :-) what I said about XML. But *any* > serialization / deserialization necessary for this scheme to work > would add (unnecessary) overhead. This and the fact that you would > create incompatibilities with other Unices ... Those are indications > that this won't be done. What kind of incompatibilities? > Obviously, some Monad clone can be done with its entire toolchain > (monad-ls, monad-tableout) ... Why not ls --monad?
