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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Pager in the shell
Message-ID: <6568@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 09:50:39 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 15 09:50:39 1987
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In article <9779@brl-adm.ARPA> mills%cc.uofm.cdn%ubc.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET (Gary Mills) writes:
>Has anyone succeeded in putting a pager into the shell?

Wrong place.  The shell doesn't handle output characters from the
processes it invokes, so it has no opportunity to paginate them.

Some people have added pagination to the tty handler.  You have to
be careful that it is somehow disabled during screen editors, etc.