[CWB] [ cwb-Bugs-2985510 ] cqp and all utils: usage is wider than 80 chars

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Bugs item #2985510, was opened at 2010-04-11 17:30
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Category: Command-line utilities
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 1
Private: No
Submitted By: Andrew Hardie (andrewhardie)
Assigned to: Andrew Hardie (andrewhardie)
Summary: cqp and all utils: usage is wider than 80 chars

Initial Comment:
More an annoyance than a bug: many of the usage messages are wider than an 80-char terminal can hold.  Not much of an issue on *nix because we are all using fancy terminals from Xwindows which can be much wider than this; but in WinXP the cmd.exe prompt cannot be made wider than 80 chars no matter how you resize it. So it's a serious pain there.

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>Comment By: Andrew Hardie (andrewhardie)
Date: 2010-04-16 00:33

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A related problem is that many of the utils embed the progname variable in
their usage() output. progname is initialised to argv[0]. But this could be
anything - e.g. the full path of some symlink somewhere on the system that
points at the util executable. So no way to make it fit....

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