Topic: Wildfile - Read Only (1 of 2), Read 38 times, 1 File Attachment
Conf: Wildfile, Other macros
From: Ian Binnie
Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 09:00 PM

I have often thought that it would be advantageous for Wildfile to have an option to open files in Read Only mode to speed file operations on large files.

The other day I accidentally clobbered a load of files, by running the wrong macro on them.
Normally I make copies before doing large changes, but do not bother with macros I know will not change files.
Now I have an option for Macro & Command to prevent files from being changed.

 
WILDFILE.VDM (24KB)

 


Topic: Re: Wildfile - Read Only (2 of 2), Read 40 times
Conf: Wildfile, Other macros
From: Ted Green
Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 11:15 AM

At 09:01 PM 3/14/2006, you wrote:
>I have often thought that it would be advantageous for Wildfile to have an option to open files in Read Only mode to speed file operations on large files.
>
>The other day I accidentally clobbered a load of files, by running the wrong macro on them.
>Normally I make copies before doing large changes, but do not bother with macros I know will not change files.
>Now I have an option for Macro & Command to prevent files from being changed.

This looks like a nice improvement.

Another option would be to specify read-only when selecting the
files, e.g.:

*.txt -r

This would perform faster searches, and prevent accidental
changes.

Ted.