Display of text fields

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Hi all!

[Using PG 7.2.1 on Debian/Woody, k. 2.2.22]

After a very long struggle I finally succeded in transferring my old
*.dbf file and the relating *.dbt (alias memo fields) to a pg table.
For the time being I put the memo field in a separate table having two
fields only (i.e.: n_memo integer, memo text) which can be related to
the main table in a view.

Now, the first problem is that when I do a select * from this table it
will scroll up to the end, no matter whether \x or \t or \pset pager are
set or not! [For information: if I put the text fields in the main
ex.dbf table - which has more columns - or do a select from a view
connecting the 2 tables the page control works fine].

Second problem: the display of each text field looks like this:

# ---------- quote ---------
-[ RECORD 1 ]--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
col1 | Anatomical Diagrams for the use of the Art Students Arranged
with analytical Notes and drawn out by James M. Dunlop, A.R.C.A.,
..... [ cut ] ....

[Example taken from a single column table, but the result is the same
for the 2 cols table]

# ----------- unquote --------

My questions are then:

1. Is there a way to avoid displaying the '---------' lines, apart from
the \a flag ?
2. In case I put the memos in the main table, would it be possible to
control someway the display of memo-text fields? [Only some of the
records have a memo, and a referring col set to 'T', so I'm looking
for a selective instruction, such as: if ctl_memo='T' display memo,
else, display the other cols only].
3. Does the pager work better on version 7.4.3?

I realize that the version (7.2.1) I'm working with is old as compared
to the running 8.0, so your help will be particularly appreciated.
Regards,
Ennio.

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