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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2539 comp.os.linux.misc:16564 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!ames!decwrl!pa.dec.com!decuk.uvo.dec.com!janix.pcs.dec.com!pcsrcu!tartufo!me From: me@tartufo.pcs.com (Michael Elbel) Subject: Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist) Reply-To: me%dude.pcs.dec.com@inet-gw-2.pa.dec.com Organization: PCS Computer Systeme GmbH Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 14:07:38 GMT Message-ID: <me.771084458@tartufo> References: <2sl6o3$pvs@aurora.engr.latech.edu> <2smc4m$daj@Mercury.mcs.com> <WAYNE.94Jun3224657@backbone.uucp> <2spm91$1b2@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> Sender: @pcsrcu.pcs.com Lines: 17 In <2spm91$1b2@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva) writes: >The difference is that "ls -F" doesn't mean "ls" has to suck in termlib. >Sometimes extra features are a bad idea, when they lead to code bloat. So >far Linux itself seems to have avoided this common GNU disease (at least >when compared with commercial UNIX), but with this sort of attitude it's >not going to last. Does it? I'm pretty sure, it doesn't. I distinctively remember that the /etc/DIRCOLORS file holds the actual escape sequences to use. I had to start supporting the ANSI color sequences on the lean'n'mean emu emulation for Emu. Michael -- Michael Elbel, Digital-PCS GmbH, Muenchen, Germany - me@pcs.com Fermentation fault (coors dumped)