[pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

[Martin Paul]

Alexander Skwar wrote:
> With fixed width, post processing isn't easier (but also not harder,
> of course *G*). It just LOOKS nicer, but if you're after post processing,
> the looks aren't that important, I'd say.

You're right.

Right now the options to control pca's output are not very great, and my 
main concern was to make it LOOK nice, as 99% of the people look at the 
output directly instead of post-processing it. The '--format' is mainly 
there to add or remove columns from the output, but still make the 
output human readable.

It would be nice to make the output completely configurable, so the user 
could determine whether a human- or machine-readable output should be 
generated, with a free choice of column separators. It's not a request 
that comes up frequently, though.

Martin.