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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Colors in BSDI?
Date: 28 May 1996 12:18:57 GMT
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cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener) wrote:

> 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?

There are actually two color-ls'es that can be found in the FreeBSD
ports collection (the Linux one, and a separate one).  You shouldn't
have much trouble compiling one of them on BSD/OS, i guess.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j