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Date:      Mon, 12 Aug 1996 11:58:14 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Justin Ashworth <ashworth@fubar.cs.montana.edu>
To:        Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@code.hu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, samurai@iossy.net
Subject:   Re: ftp install crash.. recoverd?
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.91.960812115442.31533E-100000@fubar.cs.montana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960812102825.136492D-100000@homer03.u.washington.edu>

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On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Ken Marsh wrote:

> Speaking of colorls... I tried it out, and got no colors whatsoever. (I am
> using XFree863.1.1)  Later I read that 3.1.1 won't do colors in an xterm
> window, so I got color_xterm instead. Still no colors. Now I'm wondering
> if I'm not supposed to use both color_xterm AND colorls, or if I should
> just upgrade to 3.1.2.
> 
> Any suggestions or info would be appreciated.

  Try making an alias for ls that is 'linuxls --color -F'. You must use 
color_xterm if you want to see the directory colors in an xterm.

Here's my ~/.aliases entry
alias ls 'linuxls --color -F'

Hope that helps!

- Justin J. Ashworth
-- CS Student - Montana State University
--- Chair, Association for Computing Machinery - MSU
-- ashworth@cs.montana.edu
- http://www.cs.montana.edu/~ashworth




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