From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 23 09:25:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01464 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 09:25:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.lanline.com (root@mail.lanline.com [206.152.160.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01359 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 09:25:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsecor@seqlogic.com) Received: from spaceball1.seqlogic.com (rtx01s14.lanline.com [206.152.172.206]) by mail.lanline.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA11605; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 12:31:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <005301bd6ed4$8818f120$ceac98ce@spaceball1.seqlogic.com> Reply-To: "Richard Secor" From: "Richard Secor" To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav_?=" Cc: Subject: Re: bin/1315 Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 12:26:11 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk wny not do both so that say -b1 uses octal and -b2 behaves like AT&T Unices ? -----Original Message----- From: Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav To: stable@freebsd.org Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 12:07 PM Subject: bin/1315 >Following a (two-year old) suggestion from Zahemszky Gabor, I have >added a '-b' option to ls(1). When this option is used, ls will >display unprintable characters in octal (in the form "\xxx"). Note >that unlike e.g. Solaris, it will not use C escapes (e.g. \n for >newline), just plain octal. > >So far, I've only committed this to current. Before I commit to >stable, does anybody have any comments on this change, or requests for >further changes? Should I make the -b option behave exactly as in AT&T >Unices, or is it OK with just octal? > >-- >Noone else has a .sig like this one. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message