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Date:      Sun, 28 Sep 1997 03:07:31 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To:        Jose Monteiro <jm@pluriproj.pt>
Cc:        hometeam@techpower.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Color ls package
Message-ID:  <199709280107.DAA13713@bitbox.follo.net>
In-Reply-To: jm@pluriproj.pt's message of Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:05:07 GMT
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970924190254.3453A-100000@hometeam.techpower.net> <342b5315.1940344@mail.leirianet.pt>

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> No dia Wed, 24 Sep 1997 19:04:59 -0400 (EDT), escreveu o seguinte:
> 
> >
> >try colorls -G
> >
> >this will tell if it is working
> 
> It works in the console, but not through telnet or ssh...
> Is it supposed not to work in this conditions?

Depends on your remote configuration - you have to have a console that
support color, preferably through standard ANSI escape codes.

Personally, I prefer the linuxls package over colorls - if you use
alias ls='linuxls --color=tty'
you can pipe the output and it is still usable.

Eivind.



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