Re: SQLPlus formatting chaos

Sam Jordan <sjo_at_spin.ch> wrote in message news:3879D882.C28B78FE_at_spin.ch...
> Hi
>
> Oracle 8.0.5 / Linux SuSE 6.0
>
> I am really not an expert concerning SQLPlus, but at least I took
> some time to read the docs concerning output formatting,
> but I can't figure out how to teach SQLPlus to do something very
> basic: just print out everything correctly aligned. Hopefully someone
> can explain how to do this.
>
> Here is what I expect SQLPlus to do:
>
> COLA COLB COLC
> ----------- ----------- -----------------
> abcd efghijkl mnopqrstuvwxyz
> 1234 567890
>
> Here is what SQLPlus usually does here:
>
> COLA COLB COLC
> ----------- ----------- ------------------
> abcd efghijkl mnopqrstuvwxyz
> 1234 567890
>

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