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From: megabyte@chinet.UUCP (Mark E. Sunderlin)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: /bin/ls -C Question
Message-ID: <337@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 14:09:03 EST
Article-I.D.: chinet.337
Posted: Tue Feb 18 14:09:03 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 19-Feb-86 03:47:21 EST
Reply-To: megabyte@chinet.UUCP (Mark E. Sunderlin)
Organization: chi-net, Public Access UN*X, Chicago IL
Lines: 15
Keywords: ls
Summary: When does -C work?

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???
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