From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 11 00:56:12 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id AAA09904 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 00:56:12 -0700 Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA09886 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 00:55:36 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V4.3-10 #7297) id <01HTXY9VI3IO006RWX@mail.rwth-aachen.de>; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 09:55:54 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.8/8.6.9) id KAA03039; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 10:09:34 +0200 Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 10:09:34 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies Subject: Re: Strange behavior of ls in 2.0.5 In-reply-to: <199508102008.QAA28117@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca> from "Pierre Sarrazin" at Aug 10, 95 04:08:35 pm To: sarrazip@CS.McGill.CA (Pierre Sarrazin) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Reply-to: Christoph Kukulies Message-id: <199508110809.KAA03039@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-type: text Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-length: 834 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... 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 [Montreal] > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de