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From: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Colors in BSDI?
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 00:12:10 GMT
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 Im a unix administrator for this company and we have been using Linux
for about 2 years now, and they decided to make my job  a bitch and
they gave me BSDI to work with. Now, in linux we have color-ls which
is a directory coloring system (red filenames for compressed files,
blue for symlinks etc).. Is there any way to do this in BSDI?

 My next question.. When I run ppp Palways, it connects, grabs my IP
addresses and then it keeps saying "packets truncated" over and over
and never stops until I kill the modem. What I figure is that my init
string is wrong, well thanks to BSDI for the 80 page manual that tells
you peanuts about this kind of stuff.. Now, where do you set the init
string?! Also, in /etc/ppp.sys that applies for the whole system, how
does each user get their own settings for dialout..


 Anyway, thanks to anyone who can help.. Im new to this and its really
different from Linux (well, not totally. :))

 Lance