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- From: drdowns@bach.udel.edu (David R. Downs)
- Subject: Re: Terminal messing up...
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:11:53 GMT
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- In article <C0pI7q.6G@news.udel.edu> william@bach.udel.edu (Wild William) writes:
- >
- >I was using kermit via tcpip yesterday and whenever I typed 'ls'
- >I got a real screwy list... like this:
- >
- >file file file file file file
- >file file file file fil file
- > file file file file file
- >
- >or somesuch, of course all the file names were different but the point
- >is that they were staggered in a strange way...
- >
- >Anyone have any ideas?
- >
- >Bill
- >
- >--
- >
- >William York
- >william@chopin.udel.edu
- >(302) 453 8147
-
- It sounds like the tabs are being miss managed because of poor terminal
- emulation or some other display problem. Try putting:
-
- stty -tabs
-
- in your .cshrc (or .login). This should replace the tabs with the equiv.
- spaces. If this is not the fix, follow up and we will give it a second shot.
-
- David
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