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From: jangr@microsoft.UUCP (Jan Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: lc
Message-ID: <806@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 89 21:48:17 GMT
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The One True lc (that is, Waterloo lc) has the advantages of separating files
by type and printing dotfiles:
	% lc /
	Directories:
	bin            dev            etc            lib            lost+found
	mnt            once           operator       tmp            u
	usr

	Files:
	.profile       boot           boot-          dos            xenix
	xenix-         xenix.880922

For exploring the file system, lc is superior to ls.  For shell scripts,
lc is all but useless.  Thus lc is the antithesis of proper UNIX tools.
Even so, it is a good bet that a clone of lc can be found on any machine
that a Waterloo-raised UNIX zealot uses.  Accept no substitutes.

Jan Gray  uunet!microsoft!jangr  Microsoft Corp., Redmond Wash.  206-882-8080