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Date:      15 Jul 1997 09:10:59 +0200
From:      Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        Adam David <adam@veda.is>
Cc:        ache@nagual.pp.ru (=?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?=), peter@spinner.dialix.com.au, peter@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/top machine.c
Message-ID:  <87rad0u6ws.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: Adam David's message of Mon, 14 Jul 1997 18:44:14 %2B0000 (GMT)
References:  <199707141844.SAA21921@ubiq.veda.is>

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Adam David <adam@veda.is> writes:
> 
> The only other sane alternative seems to be a config file, where the field
> length is specified. Once a config file is there of course, it could specify
> dynamic behaviour or (old) fixed length. But which behaviour should be the
> default?

Why don't you simply set the UID field to eight characters width and
cut the rest off?  Maybe you can add a command key to display the UID
as a number in case of ambiguities.

tg



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