Xref: utzoo unix-pc.bugs:39 comp.sys.att:4358 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!ditto From: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto) Newsgroups: unix-pc.bugs,comp.sys.att Subject: Re: Named pipes on the UNIX PC, is there a problem with ls(1)? Summary: Old version of ls Keywords: pipes, mknod, FIFO's, ls Message-ID: <4843@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 27 Sep 88 16:05:52 GMT References: <507@icus.islp.ny.us> <1099@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US> Reply-To: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 20 In article <1099@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US> dpb@tellab5.UUCP (Darryl Baker) writes: >Well sports fans the reason ls on the 3B1 is not marking named pipes correctly >is that it is the BSD version of ls. It must not have been modified to handle >named pipes. The easiest way to check this is link /bin/ls and /bin/lf then type >lf. It will act as if you typed "ls -F", a totally Berkeley trait. Those are "standard" features of ls from AT&T; they were taken out for System V for some reason. Darryl is correct, though in pointing out that it is a symptom of the problem... the Unix PC apparrently has the V7 ls. Perhaps I should fix the one last bug in my own ls program and post it; it's what I've always been using, so I never noticed the missing fifo support. -- -=] Ford [=- "The number of Unix installations (In Real Life: Mike Ditto) has grown to 10, with more expected." ford@kenobi.cts.com - The Unix Programmer's Manual, ...!sdcsvax!crash!elgar!ford 2nd Edition, June, 1972. ditto@cbmvax.commodore.com