From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 12:03:32 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA16181 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 12:03:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA16167 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 12:03:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA12183; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 13:00:25 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199512182000.NAA12183@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Colorls and | more To: craigs@venus.os.com (Craig Shrimpton) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 13:00:24 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Craig Shrimpton" at Dec 18, 95 11:22:12 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I'm using colorls and it works fine unless I pipe it to the more > command. Basically, the control codes clutter the screen. Any ideas for > a fix? I'm using syscons. Don't pipe it to more. One of the features of more is that the translates non-printable codes; this is so you can more a file and you won't end up with your terminal put into a squirrelly state by embedded controls. You might want to install "less" from the packages and examine the man page for it... I believe it supports a command line option to suppress translation. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.