From: "Weiqi Gao" <weiqigao AT crl DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: color ls
Date: 14 Dec 1996 14:03:53 GMT
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Brian P. Mann <bpmann AT jasar DOT com> wrote in article
<3 DOT 0 DOT 32 DOT 19961211143635 DOT 00a00190 AT 199 DOT 179 DOT 162 DOT 84>...
> I know that this is probably a stupid (and slightly off-topic) question,
> and has probably been discussed before, but I can't search for it in the
> archives because search words have to be 3 letters or more.:( How in the
> heck do you get the color option on the GNU ls that comes with the
> fileutils package to work in color? I'm sure that it's just something
> stupid that I'm missing, but I didn't have any problem getting it to work
> on my old version of Redhat Linux that I had to set up myself. Hopefully
> someone can help me.

Try "ls --help".  (Actually you could try "ls --color", but you just said
you can't make that option to work.)

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