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From: gorpong@ping.uucp (Gordon C. Galligher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Background writes in csh
Summary: More(1) is the problem
Message-ID: <1990Sep20.185147.14158@ping.uucp>
Date: 20 Sep 90 18:51:47 GMT
References: <1990Sep19.203803.25798@cs.umn.edu>
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Organization: The 23rd. Century
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In article <1990Sep19.203803.25798@cs.umn.edu> lindner@cs.umn.edu (Paul Lindner) writes:
>I've been having a weird problem for the longest time.  I like to use`
>aliases for my ls command:
>
>   alias ls 'ls -FC \!* |more'
>
>This works fine, however sometimes it stops both tasks and puts them in 
>the background, (this is on various Suns using csh and tcsh).  Typing
>fg restarts the listing.  This is really irritating, typing fg and all.

More(1) is the problem here.  I have not quite figured it out, but I had a 
similar problem when my users would type:  history | more and it would do
the same thing.  When they use history | less  it works every time.  I
really hate it when people come on and say "use this tool instead" but in
this instance, it really is the only way I was able to work around the
problem.  It is immaterial that less is better than more (IMHO), in this 
instance it makes things work.

		-- Gordon.
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