Ah, yes, Digital UNIX, whose shells would conveniently clip command output to the terminal column width, even when invoked in a script. That one took a while t

Ah, yes, Digital UNIX, whose shells would conveniently clip command output to the terminal column width, even when invoked in a script. That one took a while to puzzle out, had to set COLUMMS to a ridiculously high number when running on DEC. (I was responsible for an install script that worked on pretty much all UNIXes of the time. The first few hundred or thousand lines were just figuring out which expcetional platform was in play and tweaking various parameters to get consistent results from sh, awk/gawk/nawk, ps, grep, etc. The good old days…)