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To: jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com (James Leppek)
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Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 22:36:37 -0500
From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@chrome.onramp.net>
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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