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From: adam@its63b.ed.ac.uk (ERCF02 Adam Hamilton)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: A novel compromise between simple and complex commands
Message-ID: <682@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 05:31:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: its63b.682
Posted: Tue Oct 13 05:31:09 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Oct-87 20:11:58 EDT
References: <573@elxsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: adam@its63b.ed.ac.uk (ERCF02 Adam Hamilton)
Organization: I.T. School, Univ. of Edinburgh, U.K.
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Keywords: output pagination

In article <573@elxsi.UUCP> rw@beatnix.UUCP (Russell Williams) writes:
>
>   We had all been annoyed by the problem of running a program only to
>have the output zoom off the screen, requiring us to re-run the program
>piped into the "list" command.  
>
>   The solution we came up with was to implement the "pg" or "more" func-
>tionality in the putline/printf routines.  
>
>   The pagination routines support commands to search forward and backward by 
>page numbers or patterns, or to write all the output which has appeared so far 
>to another file.  
>

Several years ago when I first met UNIX, the UKUUG distribution had a terminal
driver which did the paging function. (I.e. no more than a screenful of output
without some terminal input, like a space).  This seems an even better place
to put it as programs don't need to do anything!  However, you don't get the
search and file output facilities.