/bin/ls -C Question
carl
carl at bdaemon.UUCP
Fri Feb 21 08:45:26 AEST 1986
> Ok, here is my question to the net. Why does ls -C Sometimes
> NOT print across the screen? Most of the time when I enter
> a ls -C I get a nice diretory like:
> News fvps.c h19 mbox vps.c
> But some times a directory will list one per line on me. What does
> ls make this decision on? I have seen this behavior on both at&t 3b2
> machines and on Tandy 6000 machines. (sys V on one Xenix 3 on the latter)
> Any thoughts???
etc., etc.
This bug is known to the people at the AT&T hot-line and happens when any
file name is 14 characters long. When it will be fixed?????????
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