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From: egisin@mks.UUCP (Eric Gisin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: lc
Summary: original lc
Message-ID: <679@mks.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 89 19:16:03 GMT
References: <2107@water.waterloo.edu> <300@laas.laas.fr>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <300@laas.laas.fr>, ralph@laas.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes:
> It seems that your `lc' is non-standard with respect to System V;
> that's where it came from.  On my Unix(tm) Box I have the alias:
> 
> 	alias lf 'lc -F'
> 
> which produces your `ls -F'.  Ls -F tells you what's executable or
> not, usually :-].  Under gulam I use a similar alias.

The One True "lc" predates V7; it was invented at
the University of Waterloo under V6 (maybe earlier).
The 4BSD version has been posted to comp.sources.unix.

On Xenix, lc is a link to ls, and is effectively an alias for "ls -C".
This is probably a Xenixism, based on a Berkeleyism.
Why would anyone want their files sorted down instead of across?