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Date:      Mon,  4 Sep 1995 13:57:22 +0400 (MSD)
From:      =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        jdl@chromatic.com, James Leppek <jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: stable and current
Message-ID:  <zg2siImq54@astral.msk.su>
In-Reply-To: <199509040336.WAA16700@chrome.onramp.net>; from Jon Loeliger at Sun, 03 Sep 1995 22:36:37 -0500
References:  <199509040336.WAA16700@chrome.onramp.net>

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In message <199509040336.WAA16700@chrome.onramp.net> Jon Loeliger
    writes:

>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.

Try use 'tset' to initialize initial tabstops.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov        : And I rest so composedly,  /Now, in my bed,
ache@astral.msk.su       : That any beholder  /Might fancy me dead -
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