> I agree with much of your post. Though rather than using the
>execution PATH, why not
>use the function call 'isatty' to change the behavior only in an
>interactive session, and leave
>scripts un-touched. As it this is already used by several commands in
>Solaris, where is it a
>problem with simple commands like df?
But that means that you can't easily write a script which expects
"new" output.
(Also, isatty() is a bit of problem for things like:
ls -l
vs
ls -l | less
do we really want the output to change?
(I love the fact, though, that "ls -l | cat" kills some forms of
colorls)
Casper
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