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From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: ps again
To: pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Mike Pritchard)
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 11:45:44 +0100 (BST)
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <199503290759.BAA00808@mpp.com> from "Mike Pritchard" at Mar 29, 95 01:59:10 am
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In reply to Mike Pritchard who said
> 
> I was just looking through the file /usr/src/TODO, and ran across this
> item.  I thought that the general agreement was that ps should not be
> changed, and that anyone wanting this should just run ps -ww  | grep foo
> (or alias ps to do that or whatever).  (sorry if this is not the case, since I 
> lost about a days worth of mail when this discussion was going on)
> 
> > TASKID: 950316001
> > TASK:	Make ps use infinite texwidth for redirected output
> > DETAIL:	{ When you do a ps | grep foo, if foo is long and the screen width is
> > shorter then grep never sees foo because ps truncates its output. It makes
> > more sense for ps to do no truncation at all if its output is redirected. }
> > EMAIL:	<paul>
> > CATS:	user
> > GRADE:	INTERMEDIATE
> > STATUS:	OPEN

Yeah we did, it needs to be taken out.

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