Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 10:09:34 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: sarrazip@CS.McGill.CA (Pierre Sarrazin) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange behavior of ls in 2.0.5 Message-ID: <199508110809.KAA03039@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199508102008.QAA28117@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca> from "Pierre Sarrazin" at Aug 10, 95 04:08:35 pm
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> > 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... I can remember to have seen this too. I remember also that stty -tabs had an influence. > > 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 <sarrazip@cs.mcgill.ca> [Montreal] > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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