From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 9 3:54:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kearneys.ca (cr1003527-a.rct1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.36.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F13D515339 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 03:54:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brent@kearneys.ca) Received: (qmail 13968 invoked by uid 1000); 9 Dec 1999 11:56:42 -0000 Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 03:56:42 -0800 From: Brent Kearney To: "Alexey N. Dokuchaev" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Terminal wars: cons25 vs. linux (don't forget vt100) Message-ID: <19991209035642.B13857@kearneys.ca> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru on Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 04:53:30PM +0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 04:53:30PM +0600, Alexey N. Dokuchaev wrote: > > Now let's take a look at FreeBSD. First of all, no --color option of > ls. Strange.... Ok, moving on. Midnight lacks some functionality > (actually, I've contacted MC main author, and he told me that MC designed > for linux, and there are some code that assumes you're running linux). > Still, I'm not satisfied. Would you be? I don't think so. Not quite. > > Ok, I try telnetting to my FreeBSD box. What?!?! Black and white > midnight? While in Linux everything works? I don't understand it. > Try using screen (/usr/ports/misc). I don't get color in my mail client (mutt) unless I run screen. Aside from just color, it's an extremely useful tool. As for Linux's 'ls', /usr/ports/misc/gnuls. Note though, it doesn't pipe to more properly :\. So keep an alias to the old ls. For Midnight Commander, try using your Esc key instead of control, for those keys that don't seem to work. -Brent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message