Named pipes on the UNIX PC, is there a problem with ls(1)?

[Michael "Ford" Ditto]

In article <1099 at tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US> dpb at 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.
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