From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 1 00:21:25 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id AAA12405 for current-outgoing; Wed, 1 Mar 1995 00:21:25 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA12388 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 1995 00:21:15 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA25707; Wed, 1 Mar 1995 09:19:10 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id JAA06105 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 1 Mar 1995 09:19:09 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA11166 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 1 Mar 1995 09:16:16 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503010816.JAA11166@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: ftp shows directoriesuj To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 09:16:16 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: from "Ugen J.S.Antsilevich" at Mar 1, 95 09:11:08 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 597 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Ugen J.S.Antsilevich wrote: > [ls of funny dir names] > >2. If you have a good reason to do it - just patch `ls' > > This is actually more ftp than ls problemm...on the local tty you can make theese > characters to be echoed as ^X anyway... Make ftpd force to use ``ls -q'' instead of plain ls. I've seen it on DG/UX: their ls accepted an option `-b', resulting in non-printable characters echoed as \XXX. Do folks think this is a worthy hack? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)