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Date:      Tue, 6 Jun 2000 09:23:58 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ls print.c
Message-ID:  <20000606092358.A25656@gandalf.systems.pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <200006060732.AAA75029@freefall.freebsd.org>; from ache@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 12:32:21AM -0700
References:  <200006060732.AAA75029@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 12:32:21AM -0700, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> ache        2000/06/06 00:32:21 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     bin/ls               print.c 
>   Log:
>   Don't replace TABs with spaces for COLORLS because "some terminals get confused"
>   as comment says. I know no terminal confused by this. If even such terminal
>   exists, it must be termcap flag for this, not hardcoded in ls.
>   

From the colorls port:

revision 1.5
date: 1997/01/03 01:34:16;  author: asami;  state: Exp;  lines: +27 -0
Disable tabs in output when color is used.  Now -G should work with
stty oxtabs (aka "-tabs") too.

Porblem reported by:    jmz, among others

Joe
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