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From: sambo@ukma.UUCP (Father of micro-S)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Re: instability in Berkeley versus AT&T releases (absurdly long)
Message-ID: <2021@ukma.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 06:09:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: ukma.2021
Posted: Mon Aug  5 06:09:22 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Aug-85 11:19:40 EDT
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Reply-To: sambo@ukma.UUCP (Father of micro-S)
Organization: Univ. of KY Mathematical Sciences
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Summary: Making ls -C the default

In article <408@brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) writes:
>> The only thing terrible about ls -C is that it ought to be the default for
>> CRTs. USG ls _requires_ the "-C" to get the multiple columns, which _is_
>> brain damaged.
>
>I would sure get upset if when I ran "ls" in the long skinny window
>on my DMD, it didn't print the file names one per line.

So make ls check the width of the window, and do multi-column if possible
according to the width of the window.
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Samuel A. Figueroa, Dept. of CS, Univ. of KY, Lexington, KY  40506-0027
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