>
> ...one trouble [with using the output of bpdbjobs -all_columns] 
> is line-length limitations in awk - this output is HUGE!.
>
   I was playing with this just yesterday, and I installed gawk (from
sunfreeware.com), as gawk doesn't have any limitations on records per field,
etc., unless you tell it to.
-wde
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Will Enestvedt
UNIX System Administrator
Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI