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From: carl@bdaemon.UUCP (carl)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: /bin/ls -C Question
Message-ID: <365@bdaemon.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 17:45:26 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 20 17:45:26 1986
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> 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???
etc., etc.

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?????????