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Date:      Wed, 1 Mar 1995 09:16:16 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: ftp shows directoriesuj
Message-ID:  <199503010816.JAA11166@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.950301091253.ugen@ugen.NetManage.co.il> from "Ugen J.S.Antsilevich" at Mar 1, 95 09:11:08 am

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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. ;-)



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