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Date:      Fri, 17 Mar 95 10:06:48 MST
From:      terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
To:        swallace@ece.uci.edu (Steven Wallace)
Cc:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ps and grep
Message-ID:  <9503171706.AA28911@cs.weber.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199503170809.AA21044@balboa.eng.uci.edu> from "Steven Wallace" at Mar 17, 95 00:09:38 am

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> 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!

Where would we be if "ls | cat" didn't produce columnar output just
like plain old "ls" because it knew it was going to a pipe.

8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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