[sf-lug] NEED INFO ABOUT BOOT SECTOR, SPACE LIMITS

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Daniel Gimpelevich (daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us):

> In the steps I gave, I piped dpkg -l through cat because it apparently
> detects the number of columns from the tty that is stdout, and not from
> a pipe, e.g. to less or cat.

Well, OK, but in my experience, 'dpkg -l | less' works just great
provided you run it in a terminal 80 columns (or more) wide, so my point
to Alex is that I'm puzzled he perceives a problem he needs scripting to
solve.

No special steps should be required at all, is my point.  Just have an
adequately wide terminal, nothing more.  If there's a problem you see,
then maybe your terminal is screwed up and you should be fixing _that_
instead.