From: davidst AT nortelnetworks DOT com (David Stuart) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Best NT port of gnu file and text utils? Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 13:05:16 GMT Organization: Northern Telecom Lines: 31 Message-ID: <371b2983.1089089937@mernews0> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pmerd0g4.ca.nortel.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:11:19 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > 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'. I have not used any commands to do this; I simply dragged the window to its new size (rather, changed its preferences to the new size). > 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. That didn't seem to work for me either; though I can't really test it again at the moment, since I'm currently running under cygwin. Dave -- David Stuart, INM GUI Framework Designer Extension: 39-54989 External Email: davidst AT nortelnetworks DOT com