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From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 02:19:31 -0700
Subject: [TUHS] TECO was: Re: basic tools / Universal Unix
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Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> Speaking of which, am I the only one annoyed by Penguin/OS' silly coloured 
> "ls" output?  I can never remember how to turn off that frippery, as the 
> contrast is particularly hard on my eyes; the minimalist "F" flag works 
> just fine.

I *think* that's because some global file does something like

	alias ls='ls --colors'

You can verify with

	type ls

Try running

	unalias ls

and see if that helps.

Arnold