From: rob <rob AT rozix DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Message-Id: <199701011334.OAA00121@rozix.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Latest BASH cursor left/right strangeness
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 14:34:25 +0100 (GMT+0100)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961226083302.6244I-100000@is> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Dec 26, 96 08:35:37 am
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> > Oh but there's one more thing, anyone know where I can get an ls for DOS
> > that doesn't do this ?
> > 
> > $ ls foo
> > bar
> > $ ls foo/
> > \bin\dir.exe: foo/: No such file or directory 
> > 
> > the second foo (with the slash is completed by bash)
> 
> Where did you get that `dir.exe'?  Is it from the DJGPP port of GNU 
> Fileutils 3.13?  If not, please download v2gnu/fil313b.zip from the DJGPP 
> archives and install ls from there.  It should have no problems dealing 
> with such filenames.  (And btw, why does `ls' call `dir.exe'?)
> 
Thanks for the reply. 
I have a later version of fileutils and the problem is indeed fixed.

ls is an alias for dir.exe because I had an ls.exe which seemed to take longer
to execute then dir.exe. This no longer seems to be the case with the latest 
fileutils.

Happy New Year,

	Rob.