Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 16:08:35 -0400 From: Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip@CS.McGill.CA> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Strange behavior of ls in 2.0.5 Message-ID: <199508102008.QAA28117@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca>
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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... 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]
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