On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 09:12:16PM -0500, Ashutosh S. Rajekar wrote: > sh-2.02# pwd > //lib > --------- > Huh ?
Interesting :) Do you have the glibc sources? You could try to debug this. > Also my opinion is that cat'ing of directories should not be permitted, or > atleast dircolors or color ls should be provided, it is a pain trying to > cat directories and cd' to text files. I had the same opinion, but Thomas convinced me otherwise. Remember that in the Hurd, there is no real difference between a file and a directory. A translator could for example provide a file content (a tar file), but on the other side look like a directory (cd myfoo.tar.gz; ls). Of course, you may argue that for conventional directories it should not be permitted, but now I can ask "Why?" and you don't have a good answer. cd to text files should NOT work. If it does, which versions of the Hurd and glibc do you have? Color'ed ls requires a colored terminal. The Hurd terminal does not support ANSI colors. But if you telnet in from a Linux machine, and try "ls --color=auto", you will notice that the software does support colored output if the terminal does. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
