Re: [CentOS] ls permissions format changed in CentOS 8

2019-10-27 Thread Kenneth Porter
It's a display bug in PuTTY+Epsilon, but a subtle one! I upgraded PuTTY from 0.65 on one PC to 0.73 (latest) and the problem disappeared. I still see it on another PC running PuTTY 0.70. I'm still trying to characterize it but the output is correct and it's because I'm using Epsilon to view th

Re: [CentOS] ls permissions format changed in CentOS 8

2019-10-27 Thread Kenneth Porter
It's a missing ncurses feature in the older PuTTY that's trigged by an update to ncurses or terminfo in CentOS 8. PuTTY 0.72 added support for the REP (repeating character) command and the newer terminfo adds that as an xterm feature. The Epsilon author spotted it in the PuTTY changelog. So an