Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 20:49:37 -0800 From: Keith Walker <kew@icehouse.net> To: Veronica Hunt <vhunt@satx.rr.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: umm.. colors? Message-ID: <00110820493701.46370@mars.walker.dom> In-Reply-To: <20001108212708.B2156@dan.emsphone.com> References: <004b01c049fb$4360a500$0302a8c0@cleopatra> <20001108212708.B2156@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Wednesday 08 November 2000 7:27 pm, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Nov 08), Veronica Hunt said: > > i installed freebsd like 5 years ago, and at that time I thought it > > even had color in its dir listing?? maybe I did something to do > > this.. but then I went to slackware and forgot about it.. well i > > have done the linux thing for about 5 years, so i am switching to > > freebsd to learn this excisting o/s.. can freebsd do the color in > > dirs like linux? thanks. > > Color directory listings has nothing to do with the OS you're > running. It all depends on the "ls" program. FreeBSD has > historically not had a color ls, and you had to install either the > "colorls" or "linuxls" from ports. FreeBSD 4.1 and later versions > now have an ls that can be told to print in color, though. Or the latest versions of tcsh which has the "set color" knob that turns it's "ls-F" list command to color, as well as file completion and stuff like that in color as well. -- Keith Walker kew@icehouse.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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