From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 8 20:51:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.icehouse.net (mail.icehouse.net [204.203.53.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8340D37B479 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 20:51:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mars.walker.dom (ppp-375.icehouse.net [204.203.54.145]) by mail.icehouse.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with SMTP id UAA22688; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 20:51:43 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: mail.icehouse.net: Host ppp-375.icehouse.net [204.203.54.145] claimed to be mars.walker.dom From: Keith Walker Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 20:51:40 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: Veronica Hunt References: <004b01c049fb$4360a500$0302a8c0@cleopatra> <20001108212708.B2156@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20001108212708.B2156@dan.emsphone.com> Subject: Re: umm.. colors? MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00110820493701.46370@mars.walker.dom> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 08 November 2000 7:27 pm, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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. Or the latest versions of tcsh which has the "set color" knob that turns it's "ls-F" list command to color, as well as file completion and stuff like that in color as well. -- Keith Walker kew@icehouse.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message