From: Steve Youngs <youngs(a)xemacs.org>
   Date: 03 Jul 2001 23:36:52 +1000
   
   |--==> "MS" == Michael Sperber <sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
writes:
   
>>>>>"SY" == Steve Youngs
<youngs(a)xemacs.org> writes: 
     SY> |--==> "JM" == Jeff Mincy
<jeff(a)delphioutpost.com> writes:
   
     JM> I've noticed that sometimes the columns in dired become misaligned.
   
     SY> I noticed a similar behaviour as well.  There is a newer Dired package
     SY> (dired-1.11-pkg.tar.gz) at:
   
     SY> /ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/beta/experimental/packages/
   
     SY> Try that one, it fixed the problem for me.
   
     MS> Really?  My fix for this one isn't in the package distro yet, as far
     MS> as I can determine :-)
   
   I haven't seen the problem since I installed dired-1.11-pkg.tar.gz.
   Go figure. :-)
   
I'm using 1.11 dired package - sorry, should have said so to begin with...
To get unaligned 
    M-x dired (anything)
    s (dired-sort-toggle-or-edit)
Then do something that creates a file in the directory - like M-x copy-file.
-jeff