Re: Text output and WIDTH

[Ben Pfaff]

The use of SET WIDTH was buggy.  It should be fixed now.

I think it's likely that Frans was outputting to a file. I don't see
problems with using the width of the terminal on Linux. (On Windows, I
guess it probably doesn't work, because I doubt Windows has the right
ioctl. I guess that there is some Windows-specific magic to find out
the terminal width, but PSPP doesn't know about it.)

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 11:21 PM John Darrington
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I thought that SET WIDTH should also work.
>
> Also I thought that when run interactively from a terminal, it should
> default to the width of the terminal.
>
> Perhaps we need to investigate why this is not happening.
>
> J'
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 09:58:59PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 12:54 PM Frans Houweling <address@hidden> wrote:
>      >    is there any way to prevent text output to wrap at 80 columns?
>      > I would like to retrieve cluster centers from the output of QUICK
>      > CLUSTER, but this is hindered by wrapping:
>
>      Yes, you can specify the maximum output width with "-O width=200" on
>      the command line for 200 columns (or whatever width you like).