Re: SQL command line unusable in Linux?

Use the sqlplus set command to fix the formatting:

SQL>show all
SQL>set pages 24

http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a90842/ch13.htm#1011230

Poke around the web (or metalink, if you have access, search for tfts for some old chestnuts) for some typical examples, like head, verify, pages, lines, echo, termout, spool, colsep, define, column and so forth.

jg

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