General question about Linux

[Steve Holmes]

Oh yea, I do that but I just thought it to be much easier to read the
listing without the stuff at the beginning of each line.  That way, I
can use the down line key in speakup and not have to listen to the
leader stuff - just the long file names:).  Like I say, "ls -1" does
this nicely in the shell but for some reason, I can't do that with
lftp.  It might be a function of the server, not sure though.

BTW, it isn't just windows users that leave the long messages in
there.  I get pretty lazy myself and don't trim off the excess from
the back end:).

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 07:38:20AM -0400, Ann Parsons wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Steve, try piping the ls command to a file if it's a long list.  I
> find that works just peachy keen, and I can look through and even
> search in emacs.  
> 
> 
> BTW, them's as is usin' windows mailers, could ya please give us true
> Linuxers a break and quit hitting that `ctrl-r'  and just replying
> willy-nilly!  This previous msg had some forty to fifty lines of
> quoted text!  Now I know I'm not the listowner, but I, for one, would
> appreciate shorter messages.  Remember, guys, the blessed list is
> archived!  If you want to see what somebody else said, go and look it
> up, for God's sake, don't quote a chain of six messages together!
> Only AOLers do this sort of idiocy guys, get with the program! 
> 
> Ann P.
>