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From: tim@callan.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: re: terminal paging
Message-ID: <137@callan.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 31-Mar-84 19:00:02 EST
Article-I.D.: callan.137
Posted: Sat Mar 31 19:00:02 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Apr-84 00:58:23 EST
Organization: Callan Data Systems, Westlake Village, CA
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#!/dev/persons/you

  If terminal paging in the tty driver has reasonable defaults, say
24 lines/screen, 80 characters/line, whatever the most common terminal
on your system does with long lines, then most people could get by
with a simple

	stty page

in their .profile ( oh, all right, .login ).  And if by some chance
they are on a terminal that this is not appropriate for, it is not
much work to have a shell script ( oh, all right, an alias ) so that

	lines 64

sets up for their terminal, or even a script ( alias ) so that, say,

	cit500

sets up for a cit500, etc, etc.

  If I were doing page mode, I think I would only have it apply
to output in "cooked" mode.  This way, most editors, etc, don't
have to be changed to save/restore the state of paging when they
set up the terminal.

  
				Tim Smith
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