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From: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@fubar.cs.montana.edu>
To: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: colorls
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On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Ken Marsh wrote:
> 
> I'm doubting that an alias would help for two reasons:
> 
> 	1) I don't have lunuxls.
> 	2) I don't have colorls.

  Then get one of them. They are both in the ports distribution under the 
misc category. You MUST use a colored ls and color_xterm if you want to 
see colorful 'ls' output in X. I happen to like Linuxls because setting 
it up is more straightforward. Colorls is more customizable. The reason I 
created the alias is so that I don't have to type 'linuxls --color -F' 
every time I want to get a color directory listing.

- Justin J. Ashworth
-- CS Student - Montana State University
--- Chair, Association for Computing Machinery - MSU
-- ashworth@cs.montana.edu
- http://www.cs.montana.edu/~ashworth