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To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
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Subject: Re: Color ls 
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>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> writes:

    >> On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 01:08:41AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
    >> 
    >> > joe@cuddy[503]: export TERM=xterm-color
    >> > joe@cuddy[504]: vi
    >> > xterm-color: Unknown terminal type
    >> > Visual needs addressable cursor or upline capability
    >> > :q
    >> > joe@cuddy[505]: uname -a
    >> > SunOS cuddy 5.6 Generic_105181-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1
    >> 
    >> That's not the issue.
    >> 
    >> What we want to do is have TERM=xterm be the same as xterm-color
    >> is now.
    >> 
    >> If you log in to a FreeBSD box from your Sun, and *then* set
    >> TERM=xterm-color and run things on the FreeBSD box, do the color
    >> escape sequences screw anything up?

    Brian> Despite being against ls -G, I'd certainly advocate this change...  
    Brian> I'm surprised this hasn't already been done.  The never-to-be-committed 
    Brian> evil is ``alias ls="ls -G"'' in /etc/profile !

or /usr/share/skel/dot.profile

Martin



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