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Re: linux 9.0.10: tcsh/csh.login

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jul 17 14:37:53 2001

Message-Id: <200107171837.OAA20947@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:13:15 EDT."
             <Pine.GSO.4.30L.0107171304290.13888-100000@iphigenia.mit.edu> 
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:37:48 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>

> But I should be able to flip a switch or add a couple of lines to a
> local ~/*rc file of some kind and change to color listings. Is this
> the case?

I believe that

  echo 'COLOR tty' > ~/.dircolors

will turn it on.  (For Linux.  And it won't work in 8.4.)

Perhaps we should try to remember this when we do the account
configuration capplet.

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