On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 12:24:34AM -0700, Jim Lynch wrote: > Hi Joey, > > And I see your point, which is that dpkg can produce the whole name. > > But are you asking every newbie who hasn't set X up yet and has an 80-col > screen to do the same? :) (didn't think so... so we need a different but > possibly related solution.) what about a switch to supress the trunicated descriptions? that should leave enough space on an 80x24 terminal for the full package name. the description is so trunicated anyway its almost useless in this context, for desc i use dpkg -s or dselect. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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