Say, a silly little question to the Debian gurus. Anyone know why my dpkg listing fields get truncated when I direct the output to a file? This is from xterm running in a bash shell. I'd like to be able to have a copy of the current package listing for all my servers and its irritating to see the package names or version number cut off. root at rho1:cgi-bin# dpkg --list 'communicator* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-====================================-====================================-======================================================================================== ii communicator 4.77-2 Meta package that depends on other packages ii communicator-base-477 4.77-2 Communicator base support for version 4.77 un communicator-browser-477 <none> (no description available) un communicator-nethelp-477 <none> (no description available) ii communicator-smotif-477 4.77-2 Netscape Communicator 4.77 (static Motif) un communicator-spellchk-477 <none> (no description available) root at rho1:cgi-bin# dpkg --list 'communicator*' > dpkg.lst root at rho1:cgi-bin# cat dpkg.lst Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii communicator 4.77-2 Meta package that depends on other packages ii communicator-b 4.77-2 Communicator base support for version 4.77 un communicator-b <none> (no description available) un communicator-n <none> (no description available) ii communicator-s 4.77-2 Netscape Communicator 4.77 (static Motif) un communicator-s <none> (no description available) -- John Hawley BGEA/ITS Network Engineer 612.335.1334 jhawley at bgea.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030318/331fd4be/attachment.html