On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 07:14:47PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > I had thought of that one, and I agree with your evaluation of its > significance. You see, dpkg -l gives 14 columns of package name in an > 80-column terminal, so you would see:
dpkg -l is (IMHO) very frustrating. Just when you want to find out what kernels you have installed and no longer need: [8:11am] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> dpkg -l | grep kernel ii ipx 2.2.0.17-1 Utilities to configure the kernel ipx interf ii kernel-image-2 silly.2 Linux kernel binary image. ii kernel-image-2 silly.1 Linux kernel binary image. ii kernel-package 7.04.potato.1 Debian Linux kernel package build scripts. ... the useful part of the package name is cut off. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
