Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Path: utzoo!utgpu!radio.astro!brian
From: brian@radio.astro.utoronto.ca (Brian Glendenning)
Subject: monkey.el - no '*'?
Message-ID: <1989Mar19.232940.9144@radio.astro.utoronto.ca>
Summary: no * , $
Reply-To: brian@radio.astro.utoronto.ca (Brian Glendenning)
Organization: Radio Astronomy, University of Toronto
Date: Sun, 19-Mar-89 23:29:40 EST

I have recently tried playing around with monkey mode under gnuemacs.
I do like it better than I like dired. I would like it even better,
however, if it did what its documentation says it does, i.e. put '*'
before executables (and ',' before character devices, and '$' before
block devices, although that's not so important). It does put '/'
before directories and '@' before symlinks, as it should.

Is this a local problem? We're running 18.52 under SunOS 3.4, although
the behaviour seems to be similar on other machines running slightly
earlier (18.49) versions of emacs, and machines running later (4.0+)
versions of SunOS.

Please respond via email, and I will post the solution to the group if
it's not some silly local problem (and will still post if it appears
others might possibly be making the same mistake). Thanks.
-- 
	  Brian Glendenning - Radio astronomy, University of Toronto
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