On February 2, you wrote:
> >From: "David Martin" <davidm@hous.inmet.com>
> >Linix has a nice feature such that when using the 'ls' command directorys, 
> >links, etc. show up in different colors. Does BSD support that feature. Its
> >nice to be able to tell what something is at a glance!
> 
> BSD does not natively support colorized ls, but "ls -F" will append a marker
> character to the end of directory entries to tell you what they are -- "/" for
> directories, "*" for executables, "@" for symbolic, etc.  If you really want
> the colorized version, it should be possible to port it (if someone hasn't
> done it already), but I'm not sure how hard it would be.

  It's GNU ls...the "-o" option tacks ansi color control escape
sequences onto certain entries.  All that would be required is ansi
color support in the console driver.  On some Suns at one point, I ran
a color xterm replacement that did this, and it worked with GNU ls
rather well.

                            Regards,
                            -Dave McGuire
                             Systems Engineer
                             Digital Express Group, Incorporated
                             mcguire@digex.net