Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 10:02:56 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Update for symlinks and LS_COLORS
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On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Richard Dawe wrote:

> > I have two small requests, though: (1) could you tell what colors will
> > be used by the new entries you added?
> 
> Sure: it sets normal symlinks to bright cyan and orphaned symlinks to red.
> The normal symlinks are similar in colour but brighter than directories,
> so they should be easy to distinguish.

Isn't red the color used by compressed files?

Also, do we really want the orphaned symlinks to stand out in color so
much?  Or is this color normal on Unix and GNU systems?