Re: Shell result line length

At 8:52 PM +0100 1/30/04, Roland Voegtli wrote:

> What confused me a bit is that resizing the terminal window obviously
> implicitely adds the ww option to any ps command.
>
> I never used ps -axww - simply making the terminal window wider does
> the same. That's why I blamed it to the RB shell class...

I doubt that Terminal is adding options on your behalf; rather, ps is 
clever enough to detect whether it's connected to a terminal, and if 
so, then adjust its default line length accordingly.  But what you 
get with the Shell class is not a terminal, but just a shell.  If you 
want to emulate a terminal, you can do so, but you'll need to dig 
into terminal emulation.  It involves things like setting some 
environment variables and responding to certain escape sequences sent 
by the shell.

Cheers,
- Joe

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