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From: perley@vdsvax.crd.ge.com (Perley Donald P)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ls (was Re: My AmigaDOS 1.4 wishlist (one among thousands!))
Message-ID: <8969@vdsvax.crd.ge.com>
Date: 2 Aug 89 17:00:09 GMT
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In article <2177@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP (Daniel Jay Barrett) writes:
>
>	Has anybody hacked up "ls" to change the way it displays the
>filenames from left to right on the screen?  It's a nice program, but
>my eyes don't like the unusual way that the text flashes across the
>screen.

Also, does 'ls' output differently if the output is being redirected
(as unix ls does)?  The acrobatics of jumping from column to column
could be rather confusing to whatever program recieves the output.

-don perley
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