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Subject: Re: Two commands: icat and ils
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 13:05:26 -0600 (CST)
From: "Mike Pritchard" <mpp@mpp.minn.net>
Cc: imp@village.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, dworkin@rover.village.org
In-Reply-To: <20291.822327634@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 22, 96 08:20:34 am
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> Your other tools sound interesting, though I always shrink somehow at
> the thought of *more* UNIX commands populating the system.  Wouldn't
> it be better to simply enhance fsdb to provide the additional display
> and recovery options you want?

Actually, I started working on a real full-blown fsdb several
months ago after having my #$!@^$%& root disk trashed one too many
times.  I've already got a good start on it, and actually started
looking at it again this weekend after being too busy for a couple
of months in there to do anything at all w/FreeBSD.  

translation: you might not want to spend a lot of time putting any
work into the current fsdb.
-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp@minn.net
"Go that way.  Really fast.  If something gets in your way, turn"