instability in Berkeley versus AT&T releases (absurdly long)

J. Shapiro jss at sjuvax.UUCP
Thu Aug 1 14:55:05 AEST 1985


> > ... I think both cat -v and ls -C are botches ...
> > Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
> 
> And what's so terrible about "ls -C"?
> Roy Smith <allegra!phri!roy>

The only thing terrible about ls -C is that it ought to be the default for
CRTs. USG ls _requires_ the "-C" to get the multiple columns, which _is_
brain damaged.

Jon Shapiro
Haverford College



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