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From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To: Jose Monteiro <jm@pluriproj.pt>
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In-reply-to: jm@pluriproj.pt's message of Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:05:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Color ls package
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> 
> No dia Wed, 24 Sep 1997 19:04:59 -0400 (EDT), escreveu o seguinte:
> 
> >
> >try colorls -G
> >
> >this will tell if it is working
> 
> It works in the console, but not through telnet or ssh...
> Is it supposed not to work in this conditions?

Depends on your remote configuration - you have to have a console that
support color, preferably through standard ANSI escape codes.

Personally, I prefer the linuxls package over colorls - if you use
alias ls='linuxls --color=tty'
you can pipe the output and it is still usable.

Eivind.