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From: rick@pcrat.uucp (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Console Driver questions
Message-ID: <1989Nov23.073117.2516@pcrat.uucp>
Date: 23 Nov 89 07:31:17 GMT
References: <1989Nov22.003520.14232@daver.UU.NET>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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In article <1989Nov22.003520.14232@daver.UU.NET> dlr@daver.UU.NET (Dave Rand) writes:

>The symptom of this problem is that the boxes surrounding some of
>the messages displayed during the use of pcomm are corrupt. Usually

>Has anyone else noticed this? Is there a workaround? Is there a fix?

The workaround is to do a "stty -tabs" in /etc/profile for the console
vt's only.  The bug, near as I can tell, is that there is no tabstop
set in column 73.  You can see this if you type a bunch of tabs at
the command prompt.  The last one will skip from column 65 to the next line
if "stty tabs" is turned on.

-Rick
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