From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 16 16:16:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA14185 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 16:16:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA14067 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 16:15:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA10491; Thu, 16 May 1996 16:15:43 -0700 Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 16:15:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny To: Kim Culhan cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: re. color_ls In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 15 May 1996, Kim Culhan wrote: > > On Tue, 14 May 1996, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > > color_xterm does not show color_ls produced sequences always. > > At least it doesn't when remotely logging into a host > > vi a color_xterm. It shows nothing (black characters on black > > background :-) I don't know at the moment whether it is a stty setting > > or something else causing this. Anyway it's funny when you see an > > empty directory until you suddenly realize that you are using > > color_ls. It causes more harassing than it benefits. > > I have installed color_xterm, color_ls and tcsh and color_ls doesn't > produce results different from standard ls. > > This is on -current last built a couple of weeks ago. > > The color_xterm interprets color escape codes. > > Any ideas on this? Works fine for me, you also need color less and make sure you run color_ls with the -G option for color... Cheers, -Vince- richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU - vince@COSC.GOV - vince@cygnus.sy.yale.edu GUS Mailing Lists Admin - http://www.COSC.GOV/~vince UC Berkeley AstroPhysics - Electrical Engineering (Honorary B.S.) Chabot Observatory & Science Center - Oakland, California USA Computing Networking Operations - Advisory Council Member Running FreeBSD - Real UN*X for Free! Linda Wong/Vivian Chow/Hacken Lee/Danny Chan/Priscilla Chan Fan Club Mailing Lists Admin 1996 Estoril Blue BMW ///M3 - BMW CCA Member Golden Gate Chapter