Hmmm... It seems to me that there's an interface issue. If you're *sure* that the message will always be consumed by a human, wrapping is the nice thing to do. But if the message will sometimes have to be extracted by an automaton, write the message without line breaks, because it's a lot easier for a human to visually reassemble a long line (wrapped by whatever the display container is) than it is for a program to discern that two lines are part of the same message. Dale -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html