From:	john DOT cook AT kla-tencor DOT com (John Cook)
Subject:	RE: `Color ls' from a bash$ window
22 Oct 1997 20:26:12 -0700 :
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Hi.

I recommend that you use '--color=auto' instead of '--color' 
in your aliases so that ls will produce color output only when 
printing to a tty.  I once had aliases like those below and 
ran into difficulties because ls was putting tty color escape 
codes into redirected output.  See 'ls --help' for more info.

Also, your 'no extra cost' may vary--I find that ls runs 
noticeably slower with color enabled than it does without 
color.  (I am running the stock b18 gnuwin32 tools--which I 
think means I have a build with 'debug' overhead built in-- 
on a P133 with 64 MB RAM.)  I do like the color output; 
I just hope the performance improves one of these versions.

--John

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>From: 	Victor Schneider[SMTP:vischne AT ibm DOT net]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, October 22, 1997 5:40 AM
>To: 	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
>Subject: 	`Color ls' from a bash$ window
>
>At no extra cost, you can get your bash$ window ls listings colorized to
>show directories and executable files.  The trick is to store a .bashrc
>file in your root directory.  Under W95/WNT, the root directory is either
>c:\ or c:\root (and you can `set HOME=/root' in your autoexec.bat).
>
>Enclosed is a .bashrc file that you can use:
>============================================================================
>alias ls="ls -CF --color"
>alias dir="ls -CF --color"
>alias less="less -aCMrsi"
>ulimit -c 0
>export MM_RUNASROOT=1 
>
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