Sorry for not noticing at once, but here we go: Stuart Henderson wrote on Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 03:00:43PM +0000 concerning $ printf "1\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1234567\t123"
> Looks like an xterm bug. This works ok in a normal console, > and works ok in screen in a normal console, but fails in an > xterm or screen in an xterm. In my last posting, i have shown that xterm has -oxterm by default, emulating the strange original VT220 behaviour, but terminfo(5) has no :pt: for xterm-r6, such that tset(1) switches to +oxterm. For the i386 console, it's exactly the other way round: The consoles have +oxterm by default, but terminfo(5) does have :pt: for vt220, such that tset(1) switches to -oxterm. Uh oh. This is certainly not a big deal, but indeed surprising either way...
