From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 2 01:31:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA26872 for current-outgoing; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 01:31:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fgate.flevel.co.uk (root@fgate.flevel.co.uk [194.6.101.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA26863 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 01:31:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dev@localhost) by fgate.flevel.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA19219; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 09:27:30 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 09:27:29 +0100 (BST) From: Developer To: Michael Smith cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Termcap problems In-Reply-To: <199608020427.NAA28503@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > > Programs like ls usually get the window geometry out of the struct > > winsize. > > The problem appears to be tab-related, and probably xterm's fault at that. > Once I found that 'stty -tabs' made the problem disappear, I stopped being > interested in the cause. I suspect it would be a good one for someone > who wants to learn about the tty subsystem to pursue 8) Thanks very much - it work fine after setting that option:) Regards, Trefor S.