Clay Fandre writes: > export COLUMNS=200; dpkg --list 'communicator*' I've never noticed this behavior, but it seems pretty lame. I think dpkg should call isatty(3) on stdout before deciding to respect COLUMNS. Time to look into filing a bug report. -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list