Re: how to see the full name in dpkg -l

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

  you can resize your terminal window,

  the sad part is that it is always like the example below if you
redirect/pipe it.

	erik

Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> 
> when i do a dpkg -l "*netscape*", some of the output looks like:
> 
>     Name           Version        Description
> pn  netscape-java- <none>         (no description available)
> pn  netscape-java- <none>         (no description available)
> pn  netscape-java- <none>         (no description available)
> pn  netscape-ko-re <none>         (no description available)
> pn  netscape-ko-re <none>         (no description available)
> pn  netscape-smoti <none>         (no description available)
> pn  netscape-smoti <none>         (no description available)
> pn  netscape-smoti <none>         (no description available)
> 
> is there a way to tell dpkg to show the entire name field?   How about the
> entire description field?
> 
> thanks!
> pete
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