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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is replacing /bin/sh with bash recommended? Date: 4 Apr 1996 20:42:47 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4k1c87$krb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ih5qb$lae@blackice.winternet.com> <4ik5p6$qm6@helena.mt.net> <DoJrqo.6F9@twwells.com> <4j0sto$scs@calypso.bns.com.au> <4j4fmh$5e8@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4j8ops$pfo@calypso.bns.com.au> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 mike@calypso.bns.com.au (Michael Talbot-Wilson) writes: I was tempted to ignore your flamish attitude, only a few remarks: > >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 it should be the default. > >For most of us, colorized ls's are useless toys. Those who like it > >can grab two of them out of the ports collection (the Linux one, and > >yet another one). > > Who are we, that for most of us this is true? `you' are apparently not part of `us'. I've never seen your name before on this side of the fence, where FreeBSD is being made. I don't have a problem with you not belonging to the group that cannot stand colorized ls'es, but do us a favor, and pick it from the ports. > Try it. I've tried it. It doesn't make it better to me. (I *had* to use it on several Linux boxes where people have asked me for help, and it always bothered me.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)