I have recently converted from 7.3.4 to 8i.  The conversion went well, but I
have finally gotten around to dealing with an annoying problem.  The problem
is that since the 8 conversion my sqlplus session returns the output from
describe in a strange manner.  The Name column for example is close to 200
characters long.  I can control this by setting my sqlplus linesize to
something more pedestrian than the 500 characters I have set in my
login.sql.

  The output of the describe command when describing a package is as
expected, regardless of linesize.  So in my opinion this is not a feature.

Any chance any of you have run across this in the past?  I am hoping a patch
exists, because 8.1.6 is the final release for my OS platform.

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