>To be short,
>
>stty cols 106 rows 48
>
>should get ls to "work properly".  I'm doing "stty cols 85 rows 34" on my
>512x342 screen all the time.
>

To be blunt....
Should ‚ will.
Although I have set this parameter and the shell env variable COLUMNS, "ls"
1) thinks that it will have a screen wide enough for 6 columns and builds
its sort list accordingly. But when it actually transfers, it forces a line
wrap at about col 80.



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