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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Ivan Radovanovic <rivanr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch
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Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> To clarify, my proposal is to silently ignore the -w switch (any/all of them)
> and to remove the code that reads the terminal width and truncates some
> columns based on the result (or based on "132").

If you're going to change something that, whether you
agree with it or not, a lot of other code depends
on, you may as well change the name at the same
time and call it "myps".

Tim