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Subject: bin/715: ls gives weird tabular form
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>Number:         715
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       ls gives weird tabular form
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Aug 29 23:00:01 PDT 1995
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jon Loeliger
>Organization:
Chromatic Research
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-19950612 i386
>Environment:

Known to be in 2.0.5 7/26 SNAP and 2.2 -current

>Description:

The /bin/ls program gives weird tabular form depending on width of window.
On 2.0.5, a window with width of 111 gives nice output:

chrome 3374 % ls
COPYRIGHT       etc             mnt             stand           u01
OK              kernel          proc            sys             usr
bin             kernel.GENERIC  root            tmp             var
dev             lkm             sbin            u00

But a width of 112 gives odd behaviour:
chrome 3375 % ls
COPYRIGHT       dev             kernel.GENERIC  proc            stand                                          u00              var
OK              etc             lkm             root            sys                                            u01
bin             kernel          mnt             sbin            tmp                                            usr

Notice that at 111, it still only used the 80-columns of default.
On the 2.2 -current release, the odd happenings occur between 95/96.
Curiously, both cut off values are multiples of 8.  It smells of an
uninitialized variable in ls's formating somewhere?

>How-To-Repeat:

See Description.

>Fix:

Use a better window width.  Use ``ls -1'' :-)

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: