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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
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On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:11:19 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> 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
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David Stuart, INM GUI Framework Designer
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