Re: Reading output of 'dpkg -l'

[john gennard <joney@clara.co.uk>]

Colin Watson wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:14:00PM +0000, john gennard wrote:
>  
>
> > I can't read the full descriptions of certain packages in the above output.
> >
> > I had the same problem some time ago and Colin Watson gave me
> > a command to change the column width of the output. Now I'm
> > embarrassed to say I cannot find his response (I did save it but
> > Lord knows where, and I can't find it by searching the archives).
> > Someone help me out, please?
> >    
>
>  COLUMNS=<number> dpkg -l
>
> Cheers,
Thanks Colin.

>