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From: juancho@dgp.toronto.edu (John Buchanan)
Subject: Re: lc
Message-ID: <8903021331.AA16536@cartier.dgp.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 08:31:02 EST

>lc is a XENIX-ism.  It is, in system 5 jargon, equivalent to ls -C.
>It forces ls to produce multi-column output with the entries sorted
>down the column (as opposed to ls -x which sorts across).


Maybe I am all screwed up but there are two things that I do not understand.
First, why are we talking about this here on the TOSed os newsgroup?  Second,
On the unix box that I use (sun running BSD 4.3 v 3.5) ls -C and lc look like
>ls -C
318		dvi		misc		thesis		xmodem.log
News		fiat		papers		user.ps
bin		lib		src		waterloo.mail
calendar	mbox		temp		waterloo.map
>lc
Directories:
.private       318            News           bin            dvi
fiat           lib            misc           papers         src
temp           thesis

Files:
.startup       .suntools      .twmrc         .uwmrc         .wprompt
.x11startup.cg4               .xstartup      calendar       mbox
user.ps        waterloo.mail  waterloo.map   xmodem.log


What gives?


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