Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: A bug in 'ls'
Message-ID: <1988Oct13.172329.11116@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2569@sultra.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 88 17:23:29 GMT

In article <2569@sultra.UUCP> dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) writes:
>I found a bug in the 1.2 version of 'ls'...
>	'ls' displays files beginning with '.'   ...
>	... As I understand it, this is
>	incorrect.  [. files] should only be displayed if I use the
>	-a option.  Does anyone have a comment on this?

Alas, you lose:  V7 ls displayed everything except . and .. by default.
V6 ls didn't, but V7 ls did.  Many people considered this change a mistake
and fixed their V7 ls to match V6 behavior, mind you...
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