Alternate output format for psql

I am using PostgreSQL 8.4 on Ubuntu. I have a table with columns c1 through cN. The columns are wide enough that selecting all columns causes a row of query results to wrap multiple times. Consequently, the output is hard to read.

When the query results constitute just a few rows, it would be convenient if I could view the query results such that each column of each row is on a separate line, e.g.

 c1: <value of row 1's c1>
 c2: <value of row 1's c1>
 ...
 cN: <value of row 1's cN>
 ---- some kind of delimiter ----
 c1: <value of row 2's c1>
 etc.

I am running these queries on a server where I would prefer not to install any additional software. Is there a psql setting that will let me do something like that?

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