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From: Lars Koeller <Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de>
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   Hi!

> On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Randy DuCharme wrote:
> 
> >      I've just installed colorls from 2.1 release.  I added "alias ls
> > colorls -G" to my .cshrc.  It works fine until I do a "ls - <switch>
> > |more.  If I use more I get the ANSI escape sequence and not the color.
> > Is there a way around this?  
> 
> No, AFAIK.  Try making a 'quiet' ls alias, I guess.  Or find a 'quiet' 
> colorls switch that will override -G.  
> 
> Don't really know...just some guesses.
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 

      It's quite easy.  Simply install less out of the ports collection and
   then create a shell script 'llm' 

      colorls -Ggl $* | less -r

   Works quite well for me.

   Regards

   Lars

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