Bug#254243: (no subject)

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Olaf van der Spek <Olaf at XWIS.Net> [2008.10.20.1244 +0200]:
> That's fine for machine readable output, but what about human readable  
> output?

That's debateable. I find e.g. 'ip route list' output far better
than /sbin/route by now. The same applies to 'ip address list' vs.
/sbin/ifconfig. /usr/sbin/arp was always non-tabular.

> And how to handle existing scripts that rely on this specific tabular  
> output?

those should hardly depend on column or terminal width.

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