[Toybox] ls (/-b/-q) (/on a tty)

[scsijon]

On 12/11/2017 08:20 AM, toybox-request at lists.landley.net wrote:

>>
>>> (`info ls` agrees about the
>>> latter, but doesn't distinguish between the two demonstrably different
>>> sets of "non-graphic" characters for -b and -q.)

One is in Octal, the other Hexidecimal.
>>
>> Info is the gnu proprietary documentation format nobody else has ever
>> or will ever use. (Back when I was helping on doclifter they said they
>> were going to convert all the info stuff to html, but then changed
>> their minds because they _like_ having a proprietary format nobody
>> else uses.) I think the only time I've ever consulted an info page was
>> when I was writing busybox sed and got curious what all the various
>> nonstandard sed extensions _were_. So like... 2004.
>
> (if i'm referencing info pages, it's shorthand for "--help was
> useless, man was useless, but they had hidden something where no-one
> will ever see it...")
>

yup, it seemed to have dissapeared when they did a Y2K 'cleanup' and 
what 'reapeared' was basic.

regards
scsijon