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From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: inst
Summary: $PAGER (or perhaps just inst) sucks
Message-ID: <10224@alice.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 89 22:44:58 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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it is possible in general to ignore the horrible crap
present everywhere in SGI (and MIPS and perhaps all system V's)
about stupid pagers getting in the way by setting PAGER=cat.

the most notable exception is inst which appears to use
either its own or ignores $PAGER. can this get fixed for the next release?
furthermore, it does one byte reads and thus screws up people
for whom the stty fails (like coming in over a network).
(for example, trying to do a manual install of everything
means responding to the more? prompt with " 4\n".)

i also note that installing the 3.2 tape 1 assumes you have /etc in your path
(it just does a mknod).