Re: v2.1.57: Filesystem Special Effects ....

linux kernel account (linker@nightshade.ml.org)
Sat, 27 Sep 1997 17:55:03 -0400 (EDT)

You are seeing ansi color codes from color ls... Is this possibly coming
from a xterm with no ansi color code support??

On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:

>
> Hi!
>
> I have some "special effects" here with my linux.
>
> Doing a
> ls -l
>
> produces filenames like
>
> bz2=01;31mwwwoffle-1.3.tgz
>
> "ls -Ql" produces
>
> bz2=01;31m"wwwoffle-1.3.tgz"
>
> so the garbage has not become part of the filename,
> filename completion don't recognize the garbage...
>
> And: After terminating X, the filenames are correct.
> Entering X again, produces the special effects again,
> sometimes with other files.
>
> This happens first in 2.1.57, so I _think_,
> that X isn't the problem, the bash is used
> in both cases.
>
> What's going wrong here?
>
> KEEP HACKING!
> meino
>
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