From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] hardware acceleration
From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:24:21 +0000
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>>I used to wonder how
>>ls in UNIX could tell the input wasn't a tty and decide not to columnate
>>the listing, but once I realized it was doing something like isatty()
>>it didn't really offend me that it did. Sure, in a purist world it
>>would not columnate, but are we that anal? If the installer 'needs' a GUI

since the idea is that what i see from
	ls
should be a good guide to what grep sees in
	ls | grep '\.c'
then yes, that isatty is indeed a bad idea