From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 23 10:57:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA29743 for current-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 10:57:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA29718 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 10:57:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA26437; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 19:51:37 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA22323; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 19:51:36 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id TAA10778; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 19:48:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607231748.TAA10778@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Termcap problems To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 19:48:32 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk (Developer) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Developer at "Jul 23, 96 10:03:25 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Developer wrote: > > What makes you think they thought of a different size? > > > > Programs like ls usually get the window geometry out of the struct > > winsize. > > Usually what happens when the problem occurs is ls prints more characters > per line than it should - e.g. all the lines wrap a little onto the next > line!! What says ``stty -a'' about the window size? For me, everything works well. I've just maximized an xterm, and ls /usr/local/bin (where there are quite many files), and it looks reasonable. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)