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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: paging in the terminal driver
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Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 14:29:43 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 30 14:29:43 1987
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Keywords: output pagination

> >... the feeling of coming back from a meeting or extended coffee
> > expedition to find that the compile you fired off half an hour ago only
> >got through the first screenful of compiler version number announcements.
> 
> This is easily fixed by sending the program output to a file and then having
> the terminal driver display the file...

There is a simpler and better fix.  Any built-in terminal pager should have
a magic character (we use control-T for obscure reasons) that says "disable
paging until next input".  Then you just start your long-running process, hit
the paging-off character, and depart.  And when you come back and start work
again, paging turns back on automatically.

This probably belongs somewhere other than comp.arch.  comp.os.misc?
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PS/2: Yesterday's hardware today.    |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
OS/2: Yesterday's software tomorrow. | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry