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Date:      Wed, 8 Nov 2000 20:51:40 -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


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