From:	newsham AT aloha DOT net (Tim Newsham)
Subject:	Re: `Color ls' from a bash$ window
23 Oct 1997 00:09:07 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<199710230611.UAA11116.cygnus.gnu-win32@haleakala.aloha.net>
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To:	john DOT cook AT kla-tencor DOT com (John Cook)
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

> 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 

--color (like the -F option) must find out the type of each
file so it nows how to color it.  This takes more filesystem
calls than a vanilla ls.

> --John
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