Thomas Dickey wrote: [this is getting OT, so it might be nicest to continue this discussion off list if necessary]
> I had in mind (having forgotten that FreeBSD has a not-invented-here > mentality) that they'd implemented a copy of the GNU 'ls', and didn't > consider that they may have fixed one problem while introducing > another... is it gnu's ls? it isn't in /usr/src/gnu/bin - it's in /usr/src/bin, and has a standard BSD license at the top. also the options are different in freebsd - it's 'ls -G' not 'ls --color[=]'. > it's still wrong even if it's in the manpage (I think I'm more > familiar with this stuff than the ostensible author of this manpage). perhaps (i'm not being sarcastic), but the fact of the matter is that if i have TERM set to ANYTHING other than 'xterm-color', LS output doesn't show up in color. i don't know any way to prove this, but that's the case. i don't think it has to do with the terminal settngs not being capable. i will try regenerating my termcap database and stuff. i appreciate your (generally helpful) commentary on this list. i do think that perhaps you sometimes assume that other people know more about this stuff than most people actually do. while i like to do things the Right Way, i'm more interested in results; using xterm-color hasn't caused me any problems that bother me, so i'm not overly concerned about it. i will review the documenation on your site; if you have links to any other docs that might be helpful (especially freebsd specific, as their termcap database does seem to be kind of wacky) i'd appreciate those links as well. w
