On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 12:42:36PM -0700, Rob Lingelbach wrote: > > set index_format="%4C %Z %[!%y%m%d] %-17.17F (%3l) %s" > thank you Sven. I read the fine manual a few times and can't find > --you know, it's part of human nature to make the same mistake more > than once, according to physicist Edward O Wilson- [; i can't find out > what the '-17.17F' or -15.15 rerfer to.
see the printf man page for more info, but essentially -17.17 means 17 chars wide - no more, no less and the initial dash means left justified (without the dash it's right justified) > Rob Lingelbach Senior Colorist UCLA Film and Television Archive you do things like colorise casablanca? you realise that's evil right? it's actually worse then using outlook or running that little s/w house over in redmond. you've got some serious karma repair work to do buddy. just thought i'd mention that. 8^) kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "How do we know Saddam has weapons of mass fork()'ed on 37058400 destruction? We looked at the receipt." meatspace place: home --Bill Hicks http://ie.suberic.net/~kevin
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