From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 29 22:38:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA06031 for current-outgoing; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 22:38:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA06024 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 22:38:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with UUCP id HAA08449; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 07:30:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) id XAA25441; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 23:43:58 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970429234357.53437@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 23:43:57 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Terry Lambert Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Longer user names: take 2 References: <199704272227.PAA00413@phaeton.artisoft.com> <199704290130.SAA03420@phaeton.artisoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199704290130.SAA03420@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Mon, Apr 28, 1997 at 06:30:51PM -0700 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Apr 28, 1997 at 06:30:51PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Maybe the length specifier should be negated? This would give a > > generalized mechanism for recognizing fields which should be sized > > dynamically, and make the ps output nice looking once again... > > As it is, "ps -gaxu" is now relatively useles without a "w" option, > > and "ps -gaxuwww" has always been pretty damn useless anyway. > > I made the change to ps. It now outputs with a width of "USER" or > the largest active name, whichever is greater. Ah, to have the > column space back! Same for top would be great ! -- powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html