Re: Colour ls

[edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca (Dirk Eddelbuettel)]

  Bruce Perens writes:
  Bruce>  I thought color "ls" was cool, though I think others didn't like
  Bruce> it. I don't know why it was removed - was it a copyright issue?  

Nope. In the newest patch, I only find one occurence of copyright:

diff -urN orig/fileutils-3.12/src/dircolors.c fileutils-3.12/src/dircolors.c
--- orig/fileutils-3.12/src/dircolors.c Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
+++ fileutils-3.12/src/dircolors.c      Mon Jul 17 13:17:54 1995
@@ -0,0 +1,559 @@
+/*
+   dircolors.c
+
+   Parse a Slackware-style DIR_COLORS file
+
+   Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 H. Peter Anvin
+
+   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+   any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+   Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.  */

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Dirk Eddelbuettel		                   
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