Listings Question About Ping

Paul Allen Newell pnewell at cs.cmu.edu
Fri Dec 23 01:52:36 UTC 2011


On 12/22/2011 5:50 PM, Craig White wrote:
>
> ----
> can't say for certain (and I'm not going to research) but I've been
> using Linux for many years and never see blinking names from an ls
> command except for broken symbolic links. Blinking/flashing makes sense
> in terms of drawing your attention to things that are broken.
>
> Craig
>
>
Craig:

Thanks for semi-confirm ... and I certainly wouldn't expect anyone to 
research it just because my computer is in the shop. That's for me to do 
as I'm the one who is bothered by certain displays

Paul



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