From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 14 10:29:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA22233 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 10:29:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA22227 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 10:29:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA12821; Wed, 14 May 1997 10:18:27 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199705141718.KAA12821@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: 2.2 Splashkit To: perhaps@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 10:18:27 -0700 (MST) Cc: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, imp@village.org, terry@lambert.org, karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199705140653.IAA23749@bitbox.follo.net> from "Eivind Eklund" at May 14, 97 08:53:15 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-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > colorls has a whole bunch of problems. However, linuxls with colors > actually work quite nicely - it defaults to no colors (yeah!), and has > a '--color=tty' option that will only do color sequences if you > actually use a tty, making it work without problems in a pipe. You know, I tried this. It gave me a whole lot of additional information in color of the type normally provided "in band" by "ls -F", and it statted all the files to do it (which a normal "ls" does not). Then I went to my Televideo 925, and all the information was lost. Good thing I didn't use it long enough to become dependent on it. The problem with color utilities is that if the color is important to their function, then their function is easily damaged by a lot of hardware out there. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.