From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 10 16:39:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA22526 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 16:39:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA22513 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 16:39:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emu.fsl.noaa.gov (kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.60.32]) by gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA07823; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 23:39:16 GMT Message-Id: <199606102339.XAA07823@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA255629955; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:39:15 -0600 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:39:15 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: bradb@erinet.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <31BB4C6A.2FDD@erinet.com> (message from Trencher on Sun, 09 Jun 1996 18:12:58 -0400) Subject: Re: help with freebsd. Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Trencher" == Trencher writes: Trencher> well i have a suggestion. why not make the ls command in Trencher> freebsd have a extra display to show if the file is Trencher> executable or not. Try ``ls -F'' for that. Type ``man ls'' for all the other nifty characters that ls will add to your display. And if you're running X windows, install the color_xterm port and the colorls port, and you can get different colors for different meanings. Trencher> these would help a newbie greatly like ME!!!!!! Or even an old hand (first touched Unix in 1978). I still have alias ls '/bin/ls -F' in my .cshrc file. Trencher> another thing when installing it for the first time. i Trencher> think there should be a display that says here are some Trencher> of the commands you will need to get around. Definitely. Perhaps in some of the forthcoming FreeBSD books things like that might be covered. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/