Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 07:06:39 -0800 (PST) From: Michael A Chase Subject: Re: ls --color on windows 2000 To: Nelson Teixeira , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: INLINE references: <5 DOT 1 DOT 1 DOT 6 DOT 0 DOT 20021107114024 DOT 00af6918 AT 127 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 1> in-reply-to: <5.1.1.6.0.20021107114024.00af6918@127.0.0.1> Reply-To: Michael A Chase On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 11:45:04 -0300 Nelson Teixeira wrote: > Is there any means of making ls --color work on windows 2k ? As far as I > know ME+ OSs from MS removed ANSI color support. How can I overcome this? > is there any replacement for cmd.exe or ansi.sys that I can use on windows > 2k to make this work ? Anyone trying to help you will need some details. Please read http://cygwin.com/bugs.html for some guidelines. Note that cygcheck output should be sent as an attachment to minimize false hits on archive searches. What happens when you try it? I've used it under WinXP in a normal console window and the colors appeared as expected. I don't use rxvt, but that is another possibility. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/