Switch to BeOS ?
I guess you have not heard BeOS is gone bye bye !
They went out 2 years ago.
Good Luck
-----Original Message-----
From: Vernon <vsingleton@cfl.rr.com>
To: leaplist@lists.leap-cf.org <leaplist@lists.leap-cf.org>; slug@nks.net
<slug@nks.net>
Date: Monday, February 24, 2003 8:52 PM
Subject: [SLUG] find, locate, BeOS ... sigh
>Idiots like myself are tired of typing out "find / -name ..." and waiting.
>But rather, we like updatedb and locate, but find ourselves constantly
>typing
>"time updatedb" ... 2 minutes later ... "locate whatever",
>and because we are not even willing to wait 1+ minutes for the crontab
>we've even tried a little scripts like this:
>
>#!/bin/bash
>lockFile="/tmp/lock.${0#./}"
>echo $$ > $lockFile
>while [ -s $lockFile ]
>do
> updatedb
> sleep 1
>done
>
>but it boggs a system down noticably.
>Any ideas other than switching to BeOS?
>
>Vernon
>
>
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