From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 17 03:27:55 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA03221 for current-outgoing; Fri, 17 Mar 1995 03:27:55 -0800 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA03209 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 1995 03:27:52 -0800 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id GAA07819; Fri, 17 Mar 1995 06:24:48 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199503171124.GAA07819@hda.com> Subject: Re: ps and grep To: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 06:24:48 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199503170809.AA21044@balboa.eng.uci.edu> from "Steven Wallace" at Mar 17, 95 00:09:38 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 475 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Steven Wallace writes: > > > I agree with Rod, changing the functionality based on output is a BAD > idea. There is no need to do this in ps. Just use ps gaxww > to get > 80 col output. > I agree. Personally, I don't like the way ls changes based on output and so don't consider it a good example. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267