Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!hsdndev!husc6!ngo From: ngo@tammy.harvard.edu (Tom Ngo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Zterm 0.85 Message-ID: Date: 26 Mar 91 04:09:04 GMT References: <1991Mar21.014334.18879@watserv1.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Organization: Harvard Chemistry Department Lines: 24 In-reply-to: anderson@fpg.waterloo.edu's message of 21 Mar 91 01:43:34 GMT In article <1991Mar21.014334.18879@watserv1.waterloo.edu> anderson@fpg.waterloo.edu (Glen Anderson) writes: glen> I have a problem when calling into a Unix system in that every so often glen> the first character on a line appears on the previous line on the right glen> hand side. glen> glen> It is very common with the ls command. glen> glen> The baud rate is 2400 The problem is that zterm does not have hard tabs, which your Unix system expects the terminal to have (usually at every 8 columns). Many programs, notably ls, try to save characters by transmitting one tab instead of many spaces whenever appropriate. So every time your shell tabs, zterm sends the cursor to the last column. To tell your shell that your terminal has no tabs: stty -tabs -- Tom Ngo ngo@harvard.harvard.edu 617/495-1768 lab number, leave message