Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!apollo!nazgul
From: nazgul@apollo.COM (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: more
Message-ID: <449dad2c.1b147@apollo.COM>
Date: 24 Jul 89 18:41:00 GMT
References: <8441@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: nazgul@apollo.COM (Kee Hinckley)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In article <8441@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Moshe Braner) writes:
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>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)?

This is a rather technical nit, but in fact more does none of this.
More requires the use of a terminal emulator, and pads are not
emulators.  Thus what you are watching is actually the startup of
the vt100 emulator each time you read a mail message.  There are
several options.  You can either let the stuff scroll out, and then
scroll back to it, you can use crpad to create a new window with
the output, or you can write a pretty trivial application to pop
up a read-only pane on the message.  There are lots of the latter
hanging around, but I don't believe any get shipped.  Most people
at Apollo do either the first or the third of those choices.  I
suppose if you want to totally give up padness you could also simply
run your mail program from a vt100 emulator.

						-kee
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