Re: how to see the full name in dpkg -l

2000-12-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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 Vers

Re: how to see the full name in dpkg -l

2000-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
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 VersionDescription >> pn netscape-java- (no de

Re: how to see the full name in dpkg -l

2000-12-11 Thread Erik Steffl
you can resize your terminal window, the sad part is that it is always like the example below if you redirect/pipe it. erik Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > when i do a dpkg -l "*netscape*", some of the output looks like: > > Name VersionDescription > pn netscape

Re: how to see the full name in dpkg -l

2000-12-11 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > is there a way to tell dpkg to show the entire name field? How about the > entire description field? Set your display to use more than 80 columns, dpkg will adjust the output to show more if it knows the width of the display. later, Bruc

Re: how to see the full name in dpkg -l

2000-12-11 Thread Rino Mardo
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:55:33AM -0800 or thereabouts, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > when i do a dpkg -l "*netscape*", some of the output looks like: > > Name VersionDescription > pn netscape-java- (no description available) > pn netscape-java- (no descrip

how to see the full name in dpkg -l

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
when i do a dpkg -l "*netscape*", some of the output looks like: Name VersionDescription pn netscape-java- (no description available) pn netscape-java- (no description available) pn netscape-java- (no description available) pn netscape-ko-re