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Re: PROPOSAL: complete list of documentation files, "man <packagename>", all man pages refer to said doc list in "See Also" section



On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 12:24:34AM -0700, Jim Lynch wrote:
> Hi Joey,
> 
> And I see your point, which is that dpkg can produce the whole name.
> 
> But are you asking every newbie who hasn't set X up yet and has an 80-col
> screen to do the same? :) (didn't think so... so we need a different but
> possibly related solution.)

what about a switch to supress the trunicated descriptions? that
should leave enough space on an 80x24 terminal for the full package
name.  

the description is so trunicated anyway its almost useless in this
context, for desc i use dpkg -s or dselect.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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