On Sat, 26 Oct 1996 14:34:58 -0700 (PDT) 
 Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@broder.com> wrote:

 > Why not check it stdout is a tty?  If not, default to the old style
 > output.

On the surface, that seems like a good idea... however, consider the
case of the dailies... you might want them to look pretty there, but
there's not a tty associated with that process when they go off.

I'm inclined to say "Pretty by default, add a flag to specify one-row
output."

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