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From: jmurray@vt.edu (John Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is replacing /bin/sh with bash recommended?
Date: 26 Mar 1996 15:48:43 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech
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Message-ID: <4j93kr$6j3@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
References: <4ih5qb$lae@blackice.winternet.com> <4j0sto$scs@calypso.bns.com.au> <4j4fmh$5e8@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4j8ops$pfo@calypso.bns.com.au>
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In article <4j8ops$pfo@calypso.bns.com.au>,
Michael Talbot-Wilson <mike@calypso.bns.com.au> wrote:
>j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>
[Comments on color ls]
>>There would be far too many people disagreeing with you in this point.
>
>What point? Whether it should be available in the installation, or
>whether they should use it? Whether you actually get colour or not
>depends on your shell startup files. Each user can control what
>he gets.
If you want color_ls on your machine install the package and use it, it's
not hard if have the CD, or even if you don't it's still not that hard.
Color ls is an extra, so it is a package, color ls is not needed in basic
system anyway.
>
>>For most of us, colorized ls's are useless toys. Those who like it
>
>Who are we, that for most of us this is true? An ever-diminishing
>band of hair-shirted purists, rejoicing in our rejection of
>ease-of-use features, deriving our self-esteem from our exclusiveness,
>preciousness, intellectual hypertrophy, and rarity? What kick do you
>get out of this, Joerg?
>
>Recently I have been using Linux nearly as often at a Wyse 50 terminal
>as at a system console. At the latter I see colour, at the former I
>do not. I don't know or care why, but I don't see outlandish effects
>on the terminal due to colour being enabled in my account. What is there
>to disagree with?
>
>Try it. Acquire the capacity to judge whether or not it is a useless
>toy.
Personaly I don't see color ls as an else of use feature, I see as something
that some people like and some people don't like. As I said before color ls
is not a system neccesity for installiton and inital setup and color ls can
be added with one command. Also about the usless toy line Joerg for some,
and based on your comments you aren't one of these some.
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