From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 4 16: 2:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24F43448D for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 16:02:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA16668; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 16:27:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 16:27:20 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange ls behavior Message-ID: <20000204162720.N25520@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 11:31:08PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jonathon McKitrick [000204 15:57] wrote: > My 'ls' command (both colorls and the original) work fine in every > directory but home. In my home directory, all listings run down the > left side of the screen (like DOS) in an xterm and a console. It > works fine (columns) everywhere else. The -C switch has no effect. > Any idea what is happening here? You_have_a_really_long_file_name_in_there ? try 'ls | more' -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message