/bin/ls -C Question
Guy Harris
guy at sun.uucp
Sun Feb 23 17:58:29 AEST 1986
> > Ok, here is my question to the net. Why does ls -C Sometimes
> > NOT print across the screen?...
>
> 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?????????
It'll probably get fixed when they get around to adopting the 4.2BSD *cum*
IEEE P1003 directory reading library, since that library always
null-terminates file names. (Yet another argument in favor of that library,
as if there weren't enough good reasons to use it anyway.)
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Guy Harris
{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
guy at sun.arpa (yes, really)
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