I remember way back in the day ...
<flashback>
on my first Linux
distro (slackware), it was an alias in the default bashrc
file. Along with several other "dos" aliases along with some
nifty little bash shell customizations all for the sake of
usability.
</flashback>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Hutchins [mailto:hutchins@tarcanfel.org]
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:30 AM
> To: Jason Clinton
> Cc: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Command Compatibility
> 
> 
> On Thursday 09 October 2003 3:19 pm, Jason Clinton wrote:
> 
> > >The question comes up because a recent version of OS-X 
> does NOT understand
> > >"dir".
> 
> > clintonj@athena clintonj $ which dir
> > /bin/dir
> > clintonj@athena clintonj $ qpkg -f /bin/dir
> > sys-apps/coreutils *
> 
> On my mandrake box it's /usr/bin/dir, which is from 
> coreutils-4.5.7-1mdk, 
> which I found just after pressing "send".
> 
> I remember discovering this before, and wondering why it was 
> a binary and not 
> just an alias for "ls", but deciding it wasn't worth persuing.
> 
> Which begs the question: what's the equivalent package for OS-X?
> 
> 
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