From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 13:09:11 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id NAA21547 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 13:09:11 -0700 Received: from maggie.cs.mcgill.ca (maggie.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.51.242]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA21532 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 13:09:00 -0700 Received: (from sarrazip@localhost) by maggie.cs.mcgill.ca (8.6.10/8.6.9) id QAA28117 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 16:08:35 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 16:08:35 -0400 From: Pierre Sarrazin Message-Id: <199508102008.QAA28117@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Strange behavior of ls in 2.0.5 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi. I'm in a 132x50 xterm under XFree86 3.1.1u1 and FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE. Consider this: ~ % stty -a speed 9600 baud; 50 rows; 132 columns; [rest of stty's output deleted] ~ % which ls /bin/ls When I use ls, I get a display with 5 columns. But some filenames in the 1st column don't have their 1st character: it actually appears on the 132nd column of the preceding line... The specific example I'm considering is 'ls /usr/include/vm'. It looks like ls wants to display the filenames in 8 columns but that a huge space appears between the 5th and 6th columns. Any comments? Pierre Sarrazin [Montreal]