From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Newbie comments and a question
Date: 12 Nov 2002 12:05:26 GMT
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Ray Depew <rrd AT ftc DOT agilent DOT com> wrote:

> Question 1: This may be an "RTFM" question, but I read the info in
> "info" and I still don't quite understand how to get colors when I
> do "ls" or "dir".  

You have to alias 'ls' to 'ls --color=auto' or similar.  IIRC, Eli's
sample _bashrc already does this for you.  If you're going to use
command.com as your prompt, doskey can do this for you:

	doskey ls=ls --color=auto $T

(or similar... I tend to forget the exact syntax).

> Question 2:  Why so much spam on a comp.* newsgroup?  

Mainly because this newsgroup gated bidirectionally to a mailing list.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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