From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 13 0:42:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp08.iafrica.com (smtp08.iafrica.com [196.2.51.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AB1937B423 for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 00:42:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ffkrz@iafrica.com) Received: from iafrica.com ([196.30.178.209]) by smtp08.iafrica.com (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0GD900GELK28GA@smtp08.iafrica.com> for questions@freeBSD.org; Sun, 13 May 2001 09:42:09 +0200 (SAT) Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 09:42:27 +0200 From: Francois Kritzinger Subject: Re: COPY, CUT, PASTE (FILES) To: Andrew Hesford Cc: freeBSD Mailing List Message-id: <3AFE3AE2.72C6E90B@iafrica.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <3AFCE758.63DE32E1@iafrica.com> <20010512141419.A2406@core.usrlib.org> <3AFDA17D.377416FA@iafrica.com> <20010512191429.A3099@core.usrlib.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Hesford wrote: > Since this is an open UNIX, and UNIX was designed to be customized, why > don't you write such a utility and contribute it to the base (assuming > they will incorporate it)? Create a directory called /var/cache or > something, and then when you do `cache filename` it would move (or copy) > the file into /var/cache. Then a simple `drop-cache` would dump the > cached file into the current directory. Funny, that is actually exactly why I originally asked this question... I was thinking about writing myself one... I don't think I have the skills or confindence to try to contribute to the base though :) > > > -- > Andrew Hesford > ajh3@usrlib.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message