File mode badly shown in smbclient (want DAHR,---R,---- etc)

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 Ralf.Strandell at silja.com wrote:

> Well, I'm writing an extension to the Big Brother system monitoring
> software. People are running it on AIX, HP-UX, UnixWare, UNIX System V,
> XENIX, Linux, Solaris and many other systems. And my script must work on
> them all. Thus I cannot ship any Smbclient binaries - and it would be very
> stupid to start distributing a modified version of "standard software" such
> as Smbclient be it source code or binary...
>
> Where do I reach the developers of Smbclient? I believe that a better
> display of the file mode should be a standard feature of that little gem ;)

Send me a patch and I'll take a look.  I'm late in this thread, but I
think I get the gist of what you are asking for.





chau, jerry
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