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. >
