Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ho95e.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ho95e!wcs From: wcs@ho95e.UUCP (x0705) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: /bin/ls -C Question Message-ID: <516@ho95e.UUCP> Date: Sat, 22-Feb-86 14:54:24 EST Article-I.D.: ho95e.516 Posted: Sat Feb 22 14:54:24 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Feb-86 04:25:15 EST References: <337@chinet.UUCP> <365@bdaemon.UUCP> Reply-To: wcs@ho95e.UUCP (Bill Stewart 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs HO 2G202) Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 13 In article <365@bdaemon.UUCP> carl@bdaemon.UUCP writes: >> Ok, here is my question to the net. Why does ls -C Sometimes >> NOT print across the screen? .... >> 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) > >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????????? For that matter, when did it get broken? My 3B2 running System V (R2?) has this bug, but my 3B20 and VAXen running System V and VR2 don't. -- # Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G-202, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs