From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 15 22:14:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADD1816A4CE for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:14:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92.asp.att.net [204.127.203.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62A1E43D45 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:14:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.hauber@mchsi.com) Received: from [10.51.10.3] (12-219-204-133.client.mchsi.com[12.219.204.133]) by sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92) with ESMTP id <20040915221414m920073ftie>; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:14:14 +0000 From: Mike Hauber To: "FreeBSD-Questions Mailing List" Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:14:38 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 X-Copyright: 2004, Michael C. Hauber. All rights reserved. X-Notice: Duplication, modification, and/or redistribution are prohibited without proper consent from the author. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409151814.39129.m.hauber@mchsi.com> Subject: forcing a wraped output from the prompt X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: m.hauber@mchsi.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:14:15 -0000 I seem to remember this question asked before (mayhaps a different OS), but I'm not finding it anywhere (my wording is off?) Is there any way to force the output of a program to wrap at the console without redefining the console itself (ie, if I wanted to wrap the output of something like fortune to 30 characters, how can I do that at the prompt)? Thx. Mike