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On 1/22/07, Raymond Toy <toy at rtp.ericsson.se> wrote:

> Never mind.  It works with gcl.  It just seems to take an exceedingly
> long time.  Something that I probably would not be happy to see, every
> time I start maxima.

Didn't you have a different implementation of the same idea?
I've lost track.

> Perhaps we could just do something as simple as "find share -type d".
> That should be fast and we only get directories as a result.  We just
> need to filter out the CVS directories, and binary-* directories.
>
> Of course, this probably won't work on Windows with cygwin or equivalent.

Yes, find would be great, if we could make it work on Windows.

best

Robert