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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> adding a system-wide flag to the CYGWIN environment variable is a
> 10 ton sledge hammer for the pin you're trying to drive home. 

Yep.  Especially as adding this:

alias ps='ps -W'

to ~/.bashrc will DTRT.

--
Chuck



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