Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [quoting reordered to be in the normal reading order, from top to bottom]
>Peter Jay Salzman wrote: >> when i do a dpkg -l "*netscape*", some of the output looks like: >> >> Name Version Description >> pn netscape-java- <none> (no description available) [snip] >> is there a way to tell dpkg to show the entire name field? How about the >> entire description field? > > you can resize your terminal window, > > the sad part is that it is always like the example below if you >redirect/pipe it. Not with the newer dpkg in woody (say, version 1.7.0), where you can set the COLUMNS environment variable to be the terminal width you want. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
