[Lancaster] A useful replacement for /bin/dir under Debian and Mandriva

[Ken Hough]

I'm getting to like Debian 5, but am missing a useful command that is provided 
under SUSE.

Under Debian and Mandriva the commands 'ls' and 'dir' do exactly the same 
thing. In fact in the /bin directory, these two appear to be copies of the 
same file, but with different names.

Under SUSE, 'dir' provides a detailed listing of files with useful colors 
applied, similar to 'ls -l --color'.

I've therefore written a very simple replacement for 'dir' which calls 'ls' 
with the additional parameters, plus any other parameters/instructions that 
might be needed. The 'C' source code is attached.

Ken Hough

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