On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Will Yardley wrote: > 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[=]'.
I seem to recall some discussion that there was a port of the GNU ls, and that it was unsatisfactory (since it wasn't part of the base system). There was some related discussion regarding some incompatible changes made to the console's color handling - middle of last year iirc (the 3 *BSD's now have 3 incompatible flavors of the same console driver, making it hard to decide if I should reflect any of that in the terminfo database). The tone of the discussion however was that the color 'ls' was just-like-GNU (but-different-of-course). Part of the discussion was in newsgroups, part I saw in mailing lists via google. (I look at related discussions to see if there are problems for ncurses, etc.). Anyway, the color 'ls' you're talking about is not quite the same as in the FreeBSD 4.1 that I have (which doesn't mention xterm in the manpage, though it does have color support. I might recall that more readily, however I don't use that feature - 'ls' is useful for scripting, but I get color using my directory editor... -- T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
