It maybe a bit less work, but it's certainly not "better" -- without the auto-adjustment feature, it "simply" would use absurdly large amounts of whitespace _just in case_ a file happens to be hundreds of gigabytes in size and have thousands of links.
If ls does what ls used to do, it won't be worse than it was. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils