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From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: /bin/ls -C Question
Message-ID: <3275@sun.uucp>
Date: Sun, 23-Feb-86 02:58:29 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 23 02:58:29 1986
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> > Ok, here is my question to the net.  Why does ls -C Sometimes
> > NOT print across the screen?...
> 
> 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?????????

It'll probably get fixed when they get around to adopting the 4.2BSD *cum*
IEEE P1003 directory reading library, since that library always
null-terminates file names.  (Yet another argument in favor of that library,
as if there weren't enough good reasons to use it anyway.)
-- 
	Guy Harris
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