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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Disgusting kernel hack
Message-ID: <1193@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Jan-84 23:06:31 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 15 23:06:31 1984
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Regarding the need for a "paging tty driver".

Is there any time that you WOULDN'T want serial terminal output paged?
Why should the user have to remember to type "|more" after just about
every line, just so that he can see all of a line that is longer than 80
columns, or so that he can get a chance to read what is being output
before it scrolls off?

This doesn't necessarily have to be done by modifying the tty driver.
Another way to implement it is to make the default standard output be a
filter that does some minimal paging; it can recognize when a control
character is output and decide that the caller is doing raw output, or
something like that.  The point is that it doesn't matter how this is
done, but the default behavior should be that output gets paged.
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			Barry Margolin
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