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Date: Fri,  4 Mar 2005 11:35:40 -0500
From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: plan9port question
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On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:31:55AM -0500, I RATTAN wrote:
> I installed plan9port (latest version) under Linux (2.6.7 kernel).
> PATH=$PLAN9/bin:$PATH

You'll almost certainly be better off with putting it at the end
of your path.

> and use of ls produces the Usage: xxx message (Plan9 one)
>
> PATH=$PATH:$PLAN9/bin
>
> Linux ls works and $PLAN9/bin/ls also works..

What does alias ls say?  You're probably passing
some bogous (colorization?) options from the
system shell initialization scripts.

 -WJ