Re: question about display lines long than the screen

2000-05-06 Thread Paul Serice
hingwah wrote: > Recently I just change from using Redhat 6.0 to debian. I'm now > using slink 2.1 + a few updates from the frozen directory.. > > When I try to use the "ps -aux" command, usually the lines is > too long and the screen is not large enough to display the whole > line. In the

Re: question about display lines long than the screen

2000-05-05 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> However,in the source code of ps, it should have some code that to retreive > the COLUMN > variable in the screen...maybe via a function in the glibc library. yes - this is quite sure. > this won't be shell specific as ps can run in all shell..so is there any way > to > set the COLUMN and

Re: question about display lines long than the screen

2000-05-05 Thread hingwah
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > but why debian no "COLUMNS" and "LINES" enviroment variable? > > distributation just differ from the installation and maintain tools is it? > > > this may be version related. > these both variables are set by bash, so it is possible, that the version > distributed w

Re: question about display lines long than the screen

2000-05-05 Thread Ron Rademaker
Add the w option to the aux (one w willl use 1 extra line if necessary, 2 w's will use 2 etc.). Ron Rademaker On Fri, 5 May 2000, hingwah wrote: > Hello all, > Recently I just change from using Redhat 6.0 to debian. I'm now > using slink 2.1 + > a few updates from the frozen directory.. >

Re: question about display lines long than the screen

2000-05-05 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> but why debian no "COLUMNS" and "LINES" enviroment variable? > distributation just differ from the installation and maintain tools is it? > this may be version related. these both variables are set by bash, so it is possible, that the version distributed with debian does not allow you to set the

Re: question about display lines long than the screen

2000-05-05 Thread hingwah
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > When I try to use the "ps -aux" command,usually the lines is too > > long and the screen > > is not large enough to display the whole line.In the times when I use > > Redhat 6.0 I can just > > solve it by "COLUMNS=200 ps-aux" (orginally COLUMNS=80),if the lines

Re: question about display lines long than the screen

2000-05-05 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> When I try to use the "ps -aux" command,usually the lines is too > long and the screen > is not large enough to display the whole line.In the times when I use > Redhat 6.0 I can just > solve it by "COLUMNS=200 ps-aux" (orginally COLUMNS=80),if the lines is > too long > it will wrapped to next