Re: [X-Unix] Why didn't Apple change the line bre ak ?

Stroller MacMonster at myrealbox.com
Wed Sep 22 02:22:52 PDT 2004


On Sep 21, 2004, at 11:10 pm, Craig wrote:
>
> You're right, Eugene. My ls commands default to /sw/bin/ls, which is 
> part of fileutils 4.1 & unlike Apple's included ls, works with ls 
> --color. I tried /bin/ls & it doesn't make those characters. Thanks, 
> I'll remember that when I need to make lists. But normally I like the 
> color, & I still wonder why it does that, when I've never seen 
> anything like it on any Linux distro?

I see similar on Gentoo if I pipe any coloured output to `most`. `more` 
or `less` both behave perfectly - I believe they are both GNU versions.

Stroller.




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