Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.7-11
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/w.procps


In adition to all ther other /usr/bin/w output formatting bugs,
here's another.

If w's output is not a tty 

eg:  w | cat 

The output is now truncated at 80 characters.
The old behavior was to not truncate. 
There seems to be no way to turn this off or force
the width to some other size.

now I can't use w in my script anymore.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-openvz-686 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.7-18lenny2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-20         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii  psmisc                        22.6-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

procps suggests no packages.

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