Hi and thanks again ...
I wasn't clear about my problem with colors in the "ls" command. I get
the colors ok. It's getting *user-specific" colors that is the problem.
With "ls" colors set by /etc/DIR_COLORS for all users, users with
different
background colors on their xterms may have readability problems. That's
what
I get unless ...... I do the following:
The command
eval `dircolors -b $HOME/.dir_colors`
is able to make "ls" colors *xterm-specific* AND user-specific, *IF* the
command is given in a specific xterm. It won't take effect in other
xterms.
What I want is to make the colors take effect for all xterms the user
may
create at any time.
I have tried to do this by putting the command in .bashrc and
.bash_profile.
The latter doesn't work, and the former hangs the user's login in the
pre-X
stage. I don't understand either of these results.
Maybe if I could make the command act with each creation of an xterm
..??
Thanks,
bob jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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