Foramtting column headings in SQL*Plus

Is there an easy way to have SQL*Plus give you column headings that are long enough for the entire column name?

I have several indicator fields which are only ONE character long but the column name is more than one character. For example, I have 5 indicator fields which have y/n values. Let's say the name of these five columns are "indicator1", "indicator2", etc.. so when I do "select *" I get chopped column headings:

name i i i i i
---- - - - - -
joe y n n y n
sue y n n y n
mike y n n y n

and I would like to have:

name indicator1 indicator2 indicator3 ... ---- ---------- ---------- ---------- ...

joe  y          n          n
sue  y          n          n
mike y          n          n

Chapter 18 of SQL*Plus user's guide says to use: "COLUMN indicator1 FORMAT a10"
to give you 10 characters on output, but I don't want to have to type this *every* time I run a "select *".

Is there some setting that has the effect of "produce headings that are the length of the column OR the length of the column name, whichever is longer"???

Any help would be appreciated.

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Dan Jackson            AT&T Somerset NJ, USA
danj_at_cbnewsg.att.com   (908)-805-1461