On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 02:34:32AM +0000, Jimmy O'Regan wrote: :Looks like ansi escape stuff. If you have colour enabled in ls, or in your :prompt you'll get it.
Spot on! Thanks I can now reproduce this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jon]$ ls / Audio cdrom home lost+found ramfs trash vmlinuz.old [EMAIL PROTECTED] jon]$ ls --color=auto / ^[[0m^[[01;34mAudio^[[0m ^[[01;34mcdrom^[[0m ^[[01;34mhome^[[0m \ ^[[01;34mlost+found^[[0m ^[[01;34mramfs^[[0m ^[[01;34mtrash^[[0m ^[[01;36m\ vmlinuz.old^[[0m