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Subject: Re: More
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In article <8441@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> braner@tcgould.tn.
 cornell.edu  (Moshe Braner)

> The Apollo "more" tool chooses it's own font, and takes a lot
> of time to start up.  Quite annoying when, e.g., reading mail
> letter by letter (with PAGER=more).  Is there an alternative?
> Has somebody written a simple "more" that does not do cursor
> addressing (and thus escapes the vt100 emulator)?

[digress]
Darryl Conliffe and I were corresponding over this newgroup about
a couple of weeks ago.  Darryl started off by saying that most
non-Aegis users invoke "more" or "cat" whenever they want to
browse a file.
[egress]

There is a better method: use m3 (the right button on the mouse).
Its definition is the same whether you use /sys/dm/std_keys or
/sys/dm/unix_keys.
Move the cursor onto any part of the filename and click the m3.
The action taken by m3 is basically asking the DM (ie Display
Manager) to invoke cv (Create a View) of the given file.  A DM
pad is created giving a porthole to the file.  You can use the
scroll keys (boxed arrow keys on the left of the keyboard) to
scroll back and forth. [tis hard to get "more" to scroll back].

You can't setenv PAGE to cv because it's not a shell command.
A workaround is to write a shell script:
    % cat > cv << BLAAAH
    #!/bin/sh
    /com/xdmc cv $1
    BLAAAH
    % mv cv /bin      # or your favorite binaries dir.
    % rehash
    % setenv PAGER cv

"More" pulls the shell pad into a vt100 which uses the
/sys/dm/fonts/vt100l font.  So does vi.  What I did was:
    % pushd /sys/dm/fonts
    % /com/chn vt100l -y   # rename vt100l as vt100l.yy.mm.dd
    % ln -s vt100l.b vt100l
    % popd
Now my vi is "brighter" because it is using a bold font.

Hope this helps.

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