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Subject: Re: latest ls.exe version in XP problem
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com <one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
> 
> 
>>Just noticed several issues about ls.exe. Any help is appreciated.
> 
> 
>>For the latest ls.exe under Windows XP, there are three issues.
> 
> 
>>1) under a directory with one thousand files,
>>run command "ls -F" will take 1 minute to start to display the files and 
>>directory. using "ls" has no such long delay. using "dir" has no such a 
>>problem either.
> 
> 
> Think a momemnt about what the -F option means, and I think you'll see
> that that is an unavoidable consequence of using that option.
> 
> 
>>2) there is no way to use ls.exe to display files in Windows network path?
> 
> 
>>I can use the command
>>   dir \\my_workgroup_machine_name\directory_name
> 
> 
>>the following doesn't seem to work.
>>   ls \\\\my_workgroup_machine_name\\directory_name
> 
> 
> What made you think you have to double those backslashes?  Unless
> you're doing this in a Unix-style shell (Bash, e.g.), you don't.

I use bash.
with or without double backslahes(under msdos), ls won't be able to 
handle the network path.