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From: shendrix@escape.widomaker.com (Shannon Hendrix)
Subject: Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist)
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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 01:40:01 GMT
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Rob Janssen (rob@pe1chl.ampr.org) wrote:
: >Then you can use $HOME/.dir_colors to override the file in /etc.

: Ah, so you get a new home with each terminal?

No, but dir_colors is set on a terminal type basis.  On or off depending
on what type.  Further selection can be done in your init files to do
some simple regexp search/replace on .dir_colors to get whatever you
want.

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csh
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