Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 22:36:37 -0500 From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@chrome.onramp.net> To: jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com (James Leppek) Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: stable and current Message-ID: <199509040336.WAA16700@chrome.onramp.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Sep 1995 22:52:39 EDT." <9509040252.AA09078@borg.ess.harris.com>
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Apparently, James Leppek scribbled: > and now I am seeing something that I haven't seen before. > When I do an ls in my xterms the columns as misaligned > and I seemed to have 1 character in the rightmost columns and the rest > on the next line something like this: > > src/ new_stuff/ j > unk/ > more_stuff/ > > anyone have a clue??? > has curses changed? I saw this odd behaviour also. Along with Garrett Wollman, <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, I tracked it down to an odd handling of the "stty oxtabs" flag. We sort of concluded that it must be xterm's mishandling of the tab expansion. jdl
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