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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2554 comp.os.linux.misc:16720 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!news.eecs.nwu.edu!ahab.eecs.nwu.edu!hpa From: hpa@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Message-ID: <Cr1xpJ.CGq@eecs.nwu.edu> Sender: usenet@eecs.nwu.edu X-Pgp-Key-Available: finger hpa@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: Northwestern University Electromagnetics Laboratory References: <2sl6o3$pvs@aurora.engr.latech.edu> <WAYNE.94Jun3224657@backbone.uucp> <2spm91$1b2@starbase.neosoft.com> <1994Jun5.152002.22965@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 00:08:06 GMT Lines: 39 Followup to: <1994Jun5.152002.22965@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> By author: ruhtra@turing.toronto.edu (Arthur Tateishi) In newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc > > >>The 'ls --color' is just an 1980's update to the 70's 'ls -F'... > >>Personally, I don't like either, but I have no problems with having > >>both as an option... > > > >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 > > That's only the beginning. It also tries to read /etc/DIR_COLORS to look > for configuration options! When I install Linux, ls is the first thing > I "fix". > I and Patrick V. have had a discussion about merging our different color-ls versions. In an email he sent me today, Paul agreed that his version (which unlike mine uses termlib -- I believe -- and /etc/DIR_COLORS) is less than efficient. We hope to work out a version that would satisfy the needs of the Slackware distribution without being unnecessarily bloated. My version of color-ls does currently not do colorization based on file name extensions, but all configuration is kept in a single environment variable, it integrates ls, dir and vdir into a single binary, and has ISO 8859 support, which stock GNU ls lacks. My version is available from eecs.nwu.edu in /pub/linux/color-ls. /hpa -- INTERNET: hpa@nwu.edu FINGER/TALK: hpa@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu IBM MAIL: I0050052 at IBMMAIL HAM RADIO: N9ITP or SM4TKN FIDONET: 1:115/511 or 1:115/512 STORMNET: 181:294/101 AN UNDETECTABLE ERROR HAS OCCURRED [actual MS-Windows 3.1 error message]