Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style.

On 6/23/25 11:16 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 02:47:40 -0000 (UTC), pH wrote:
 

...I tend to think command-liney since I'm a CP/M fan at heart....but
Linux is okay, too, don't get me wrong.

 Unfortunately Linux doesn’t have those drive letters that CP/M fans know
and love.
 MS-DOS copied them, though, and Windows still uses them to this day. You
might be more at home over there.

   DOS *was* a (stolen) version of CP/M. The only
   good trick was to make 'pip' run all the time.
   I actually *do* like drive letters - and so do
   most people. In the office people KNEW what
   was meant by the 'P-drive' - but they'd NEVER
   be able to related to /dev/whatever. MOST
   people are NOT experts - but we expect them
   to DO lots of stuff.
   You can kind of FAKE 'drive letters' in -ix, but
   it's still not quite the same. M$ introduced
   an 'improvement' years back where you could only
   have a shared/named drive from ONE IP address.
   Had to make fixes for that, lots and lots of
   aliases. Nasty.
   As for the poster ... if he doesn't have SOME kind
   of description for his photos then he's just kind
   of SCREWED. Only some heavy 'AI' might be able to
   look at them and extract SOME kind of generalities.
   PLACING them on disk ... simple hashing. You're
   never far from what you need that way.