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dircolors problem solved, thanks.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Ely)
Sun Nov 17 12:08:26 1996

Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 11:07:11 -0600
From: Jeffrey Ely <jeff@saaz.econ.nwu.edu>
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Thanks to Jonas Kvarnstrom for pointing out that a back-quote is
required in 

eval `dircolors /etc/DIR_COLORS`

as opposed to 

eval 'dircolors /etc/DIR_COLORS'

the former properly sets LS_COLORS according to the specs in
/etc/DIR_COLORS

Jeff


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