diff -ru clusterit-2.0/common/common.c clusterit-2.0-new/common/common.c
--- common/common.c	Sat Apr  5 17:01:50 2003
+++ common/common.c	Sat Apr  5 16:56:15 2003
@@ -316,24 +316,6 @@
 
 #endif /* CLUSTERS */
 
-/* return a string, followed by n - strlen spaces */
-
-char *
-alignstring(string, n)
-	char *string;
-	size_t n;
-{
-	size_t i;
-	char *newstring;
-
-	newstring = strdup(string);
-	for (i=1; i <= n - strlen(string); i++)
-		newstring = strcat(newstring, " ");
-
-	return(newstring);
-}
-
-
 /* 
  * Simple error handling routine, needs severe work.
  * Its almost totally useless.
diff -ru clusterit-2.0/common/common.h clusterit-2.0-new/common/common.h
--- common/common.h	Tue Aug 14 04:21:39 2001
+++ common/common.h	Sat Apr  5 16:56:32 2003
@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@
 typedef struct group_data group_t;
 
 void bailout __P((int));
-char *alignstring __P((char *, size_t));
 #ifndef __NetBSD__
 char * strsep(char **stringp, const char *delim);
 #endif
diff -ru clusterit-2.0/dsh/dsh.c clusterit-2.0-new/dsh/dsh.c
--- dsh/dsh.c	Tue Aug 14 04:21:38 2001
+++ dsh/dsh.c	Sat Apr  5 16:58:38 2003
@@ -399,8 +399,8 @@
 					bailout(__LINE__);
 				while ((cd = fgets(pipebuf, sizeof(pipebuf), fd))) {
 					if (cd != NULL)
-						(void)printf("%s: %s",
-							alignstring(nodeptr->name, maxnodelen), cd);
+						(void)printf("%*s: %s",
+							-maxnodelen, nodeptr->name, cd);
 				}
 				fclose(fd);
 				fd = fdopen(nodeptr->err.fds[0], "r"); /* stderr */
@@ -408,8 +408,8 @@
 					bailout(__LINE__);
 				while ((cd = fgets(pipebuf, sizeof(pipebuf), fd))) {
 					if (errorflag && cd != NULL)
-						(void)printf("%s: %s",
-							alignstring(nodeptr->name, maxnodelen), cd);
+						(void)printf("%*s: %s",
+							-maxnodelen, nodeptr->name, cd);
 				}
 				fclose(fd);
 				(void)wait(&status);
diff -ru clusterit-2.0/dsh/run.c clusterit-2.0-new/dsh/run.c
--- dsh/run.c	Tue Aug 14 04:21:38 2001
+++ dsh/run.c	Sat Apr  5 16:59:35 2003
@@ -326,13 +326,12 @@
 			bailout(__LINE__);
 		fd = fdopen(nodeptr->out.fds[0], "r"); /* stdout */
 		while ((p = fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), fd)))
-			(void)printf("%s: %s", alignstring(nodeptr->name, maxnodelen), p);
+			(void)printf("%*s: %s", -maxnodelen, nodeptr->name, p);
 		fclose(fd);
 		fd = fdopen(nodeptr->err.fds[0], "r"); /* stderr */
 		while ((p = fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), fd)))
 			if (errorflag)
-				(void)printf("%s: %s",
-					alignstring(nodeptr->name, maxnodelen), p);
+				(void)printf("%*s: %s", -maxnodelen, nodeptr->name, p);
 		fclose(fd);
 		(void)wait(&status);
 		if (piping) {
diff -ru clusterit-2.0/dvt/dvt.c clusterit-2.0-new/dvt/dvt.c
--- dvt/dvt.c	Tue Aug 14 04:21:37 2001
+++ dvt/dvt.c	Sat Apr  5 17:00:07 2003
@@ -610,8 +610,8 @@
 						bailout(__LINE__);
 					while ((cd = fgets(pipebuf, sizeof(pipebuf), fd))) {
 						if (errorflag && cd != NULL)
-							(void)printf("ERROR %s: %s",
-								alignstring(nodeptr->name, maxnodelen), cd);
+							(void)printf("ERROR %*s: %s",
+								-maxnodelen, nodeptr->name, cd);
 					}
 					fclose(fd);
 					(void)waitpid(nodeptr->childpid, &status, 0);
diff -ru clusterit-2.0/pcp/pcp.c clusterit-2.0-new/pcp/pcp.c
--- pcp/pcp.c	Tue Aug 14 04:21:34 2001
+++ pcp/pcp.c	Sat Apr  5 16:58:00 2003
@@ -383,16 +383,16 @@
 				bailout(__LINE__);
 			while ((cd = fgets(pipebuf, sizeof(pipebuf), fd)))
 				if (cd != NULL && !quiet)
-					(void)printf("%s: %s",
-						alignstring(nodeptr->name, maxnodelen), cd);
+					(void)printf("%*s: %s",
+						-maxnodelen, nodeptr->name, cd);
 			fclose(fd);
 			fd = fdopen(nodeptr->err.fds[0], "r"); /* stderr */
 			if (fd == NULL)
 				bailout(__LINE__);
 			while ((cd = fgets(pipebuf, sizeof(pipebuf), fd)))
 				if (cd != NULL && !quiet)
-					(void)printf("%s: %s",
-						alignstring(nodeptr->name, maxnodelen), cd);
+					(void)printf("%*s: %s",
+						-maxnodelen, nodeptr->name, cd);
 			fclose(fd);
 			(void)wait(&status);
 			nodeptr = nodeptr->next;