Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sjuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!sjuvax!jss From: jss@sjuvax.UUCP (J. Shapiro) Newsgroups: net.micro.att,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Re: instability in Berkeley versus AT&T releases (absurdly long) Message-ID: <1227@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 00:55:05 EDT Article-I.D.: sjuvax.1227 Posted: Thu Aug 1 00:55:05 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Aug-85 01:46:42 EDT References: <2067@ucf-cs.UUCP> <363@cuae2.UUCP> <2423@sun.uucp> <5819@utzoo.UUCP> <349@phri.UUCP> Organization: Haverford College, Haverford, Pa. Lines: 12 Xref: watmath net.micro.att:366 net.unix-wizards:14145 > > ... I think both cat -v and ls -C are botches ... > > Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology > > And what's so terrible about "ls -C"? > Roy Smith The only thing terrible about ls -C is that it ought to be the default for CRTs. USG ls _requires_ the "-C" to get the multiple columns, which _is_ brain damaged. Jon Shapiro Haverford College