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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2555 comp.os.linux.misc:16746 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!emory!cherry.atlanta.com!nntp.mindspring.com!nntp.mindspring.com!rsanders From: rsanders@mindspring.com (Robert Sanders) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist) Date: 11 Jun 1994 18:05:12 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Lines: 34 Message-ID: <RSANDERS.94Jun11140512@hrothgar.mindspring.com> References: <2sl6o3$pvs@aurora.engr.latech.edu> <2spm91$1b2@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <me.771084458@tartufo> <2t9jo2$gek@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <2ta8jr$ii9@nkosi.well.com> <Dr7DpL.J5@pe1chl.ampr.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: msdem5.mindspring.com In-reply-to: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org's message of Fri, 10 Jun 1994 22:41:45 GMT In article <Dr7DpL.J5@pe1chl.ampr.org> rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) writes: In <2ta8jr$ii9@nkosi.well.com> gonzo@magnet.mednet.net (Patrick J. Volkerding) writes: >In article <2t9jo2$gek@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>, >Peter da Silva <peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> wrote: >>In article <me.771084458@tartufo>, >>Michael Elbel <me%dude.pcs.dec.com@inet-gw-2.pa.dec.com> wrote: >>>Does it? I'm pretty sure, it doesn't. I distinctively remember that the >>>/etc/DIRCOLORS file holds the actual escape sequences to use. >> >>What if you have more than one terminal? >Then you can use $HOME/.dir_colors to override the file in /etc. Ah, so you get a new home with each terminal? Look, the whole point of this thread -- what little there was -- was that color ls was a huge, bloaty thing that betrayed the features-are-bad legacy of V7 UNIX. Although it's actually kind of amusing and perverse that it's turned into complaints about the limitations of color ls (perhaps making Peter's point), the fact is that most people using Linux use the console or color xterm and not a Televideo 925 or (insert your own archaic terminal name here), and even if they did most terminals don't support color, and even for those that do there isn't a standard termcap string to describe color sequences, so it really would be an effort all out of proportion to do color ls 'right'. Patrick's comment is silly, of course. What you *can* do with HPA's version of color ls is set the LS_COLORS environment variable different for each terminal. That doesn't change the basic ANSI-ish escape sequence used to initiate the color change, but that could be wedged into the variable as well.