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Date:      Sun, 23 May 2010 00:09:53 +0300
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Terminal thinks start of line is first character of previous line
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>> On Fri, 21 May 2010 01:02:04 +0300, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:
>>> For some reason the output of my terminal at times seems to put the
>>> first character of a line as the last character of the previous line.
>>> This occurs with x11/Terminal x11/Eterm x11/xterm and probably others.
>>> As far as I could tell this does not not occur on console but I have
>>> not tested as thoroughly.
>>
>> When you state "at some times" for this strange shifting to happen,
>> what programs are affected, for example, or is terminal output
>> affected in general?
> this often happens with ls output - but not all the time - it seems
> only when ls doesn't do one column output
> this.

Some more testing:
cat can do this with some files but not with all - I have to find a
common denominator.

-- 
Eitan Adler



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