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In case the "p" (pure) bit got stripped off in the archiving/dearchiving
process ... yes, ls v4.0k is "residentable". Just use the Protect command
(or chmod, etc) to turn it back on, and you can "resident" it.
See the README for known limitations, bugs, etc. One WARNING upfront ... if
the shell you're using expands normal wildcards (* and ?) itself, you'll need
to use the shell's quoting mechanism for "ls" to work as intended. If you
let the shell expand wildcards for you, the output can be somewhat "strange".
See the README for why this is the way it is (for now).
A quick plea to shell writers ... *please* provide a mechanism for semi-
automatically disabling wildcard expansion is your shells! One easy way to
do this is to not expand the wildcards until an actual command (not an
alias) that will use the filelist is to be executed. Then one could define
an alias something like: "alias xls 'set nowild;ls;unset nowild'", and have
the expansion controlled on a command-by-command basis. Even better if you
can issue commands as part of the "prompting" function, as "unset nowild"
would work better there (in case the user ^C'd out of the command proper).
Enjoy ...!
/kim 06/05/90