From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 8 19:27:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC90537B4C5 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 19:27:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eA93R9p21408; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 21:27:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 21:27:08 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Veronica Hunt Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: umm.. colors? Message-ID: <20001108212708.B2156@dan.emsphone.com> References: <004b01c049fb$4360a500$0302a8c0@cleopatra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <004b01c049fb$4360a500$0302a8c0@cleopatra>; from "Veronica Hunt" on Wed Nov 8 21:15:07 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Nov 08), Veronica Hunt said: > i installed freebsd like 5 years ago, and at that time I thought it > even had color in its dir listing?? maybe I did something to do > this.. but then I went to slackware and forgot about it.. well i > have done the linux thing for about 5 years, so i am switching to > freebsd to learn this excisting o/s.. can freebsd do the color in > dirs like linux? thanks. Color directory listings has nothing to do with the OS you're running. It all depends on the "ls" program. FreeBSD has historically not had a color ls, and you had to install either the "colorls" or "linuxls" from ports. FreeBSD 4.1 and later versions now have an ls that can be told to print in color, though. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message