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From: "Philippe Bastiani" <philippe.bastiani@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: ls --color (strange display)
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 07:30:07 +0200
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Hi,

> My WAG is that with --color, ls is opening files to look at the first
> few bytes in an effort to determine what type of file it is. You do not
> have permissions to open C:/hiberfil.sys nor c:/pagefile.sys so it fails.


Yes, these 2 files are unreadable! But, IMHO, 'ls' should not fails, and
displays the unreadable files without color!

a+
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Philippe




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