On Fri, 2 Feb 1996 17:38:06 -0600 (CST) 
 "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> wrote:

 > Making the option the default behavior is bad.  I use a copy of FreeBSDs 
 > ls that has color support hacked in.  The color option is a command
 > line switch.

FreeBSD's "color ls" is, if I remember correctly, a "port" ... their 
standard /bin/ls doesn't have color support.

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