[syslinux] ROSH: bug or feature

[Gene Cumm]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Kim Mik <kimmik999999 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I just tried if because I wanted to try the Hardware Detection Tool module.
> Testing one extra module, isn't much work so I tried rosh.
>
> The output is pretty ugly right now, but changing this isn't a priority.
>

I admit, the version you have is very ugly compared to what I have.  I
released it in such an immature state, mostly to show that the
directory-related functions I made in SYSLINUX worked.  It is not
user-friendly but barely usable.

That version is about a month behind what I've been testing with.
'ls' now actually resembles normal 'ls' output (except it is not
sorted, doesn't do multiple columns and is a little more limited).  It
now also accepts command line parameters like '-l', '-F' and '-i'.
The help output is more useful and can provide information for
specific commands.  'more' pays attention to the number of lines (or
rows) and columns the console reports.

I've released at least one patch since then but it has not made its
way into the master branch yet.

> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com>
> To: For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa <syslinux at zytor.com>
> Sent: Monday, 23 March, 2009 21:26:57
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] ROSH: bug or feature
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Kim Mik <kimmik999999 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Used rosh.c32 from syslinux-3.74-pre11.
>>>
>>> When I typed 'pzd' in the shell:
>>>
>>>> pzd
>>> /boot/syslinux
>>>
>>>> pwd
>>> /boot/syslinux
>>>
>>> I use an azerty keyboard. Due to that I typed 'pzd'.
>>> Is it a feature or a bug?
>>
>> It only looked at the first letter and assumed you meant pwd.  I need
>> to go back and ensure that if something more was typed, test if valid.
>
> Thanks for the feedback as I didn't know anyone had really tried it
> yet.  I've just fixed it and need to form a patch to submit (hopefully
> tonight).
>
> It is still beta and works best in SYSLINUX.  Running 'ls' on a
> directory won't work anywhere else.  Running 'ls' on a regular file in
> most if not all variants should work.
>
> I need to finish out programming the readdir function in asm then I'll
> be submitting another patch to obtain similar functionality in
> ISOLINUX.  After that, EXTLINUX.