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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.works
Subject: Re: Data Considered Harmful
Message-ID: <570@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 01:40:32 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 22 01:40:32 1985
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> The MORE command on 4.1/4.2's (though not on some other systems) has a
> '-c' option (you can say 'more -c' to get it, or 'setenv MORE -c' to
> always get it) which gives a poor-man's wrap mode, where the screen is
> cleared between each screenful.  I always use this now that I haven't
> access to true wrap mode, and find it much more pleasant than scrolling.

If you use more -c on a terminal with erase-to-end-of-line, it will only
clear each line as it wants to overwrite it, it does not clear the
whole screen between each screenful. I use more -c all the time on my
vt100 and it really is nice.

What's sad is the folks at Amdahl working on uts don't know about this
(because they run Uglix) and complain about how async terminals are
inferior to their ebcdic terminals because of the scrolling. I claim
ebcdic is inferior because you have to manually clear the screen before
each new screenful.
-- 
 "Nations go to war over women like you, it's just a form of appreciation..."

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