Date:	Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:11:19 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	David Stuart <davidst AT nortelnetworks DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Best NT port of gnu file and text utils?
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On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, David Stuart wrote:

> Also, I am very puzzled by the strange behavior of 'ls'. It constantly
> tries to 'resize' my console window

I just tried this on an NT box nearby, and I cannot reproduce this 
behavior: once I resize the window (e.g., with "mode con lines=50"), it 
stays that way when I use `ls'.

How did you resize the window, exactly?

> and I can't (for the life of me) get it to display colours.

"ls --color" worked for me.

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