Xref: utzoo unix-pc.bugs:38 comp.sys.att:4350 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!tellab5!dpb From: dpb@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US (Darryl Baker) Newsgroups: unix-pc.bugs,comp.sys.att Subject: Re: Named pipes on the UNIX PC, is there a problem with ls(1)? Keywords: pipes, mknod, FIFO's Message-ID: <1099@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US> Date: 27 Sep 88 02:18:27 GMT References: <507@icus.islp.ny.us> Reply-To: dpb@tellab5.UUCP (Darryl Baker) Organization: Tellabs Inc., Lisle, Il. Lines: 11 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. -- __ _ __ / ) // / ) / / / __. __ __ __ , // /--< __. /_ _ __ Darryl Baker /__/_(_/|_/ (_/ (_/ (_/_