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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 12 12:41, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Eric Blake wrote:
>>> Oh, by the way, if you use tcsh, be aware that it also uses the LS_COLORS
>>> environment variable internally, but that it does not understand quite as
>>> many options as ls does and gripes about what it doesn't understand, which
>>> is why I had to patch the cygwin version of LS_COLORS to silence stderr
>>> during the tcsh eval.  Hopefully, a newer release of tcsh will allow me to
>>> remove that hack from coreutils.
>> That's all? I had to build a hand-patched tcsh across our platform list 
>> because the unpatched sources *won't run* if tcsh doesn't understand 
>> LS_COLORS. And some csh's have the same behavior. IOW you couldn't run 
>> [t]csh *at all* with the newer LS_COLORS features.
>>
>> Anyway, just wondering if you've also seen this and what if anything has 
>> been done to Cygwin's tcsh to cope.
> 
> Nothing.  It's a bit weird that LS_COLORS is used by coreutils and tcsh,
> but it's a generic problem on all platforms.  It will be solved upstream
> one way or the other.

Right, I was just curious if Cygwin in particular had done anything 
about it. Thanks for the info.

-- 
Matthew
"What's Cygwin?" you ask.
'Tis mostly absurd software
Concerning hippos.


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