Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!tchrist@convex.UUCP
From: tchrist@convex.UUCP (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Paging wide ( > 80 char/line) files
Summary: pg is a lousy pager
Keywords: pager SysV
Message-ID: <697@convex.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 88 14:42:59 GMT
References: <585@wc11.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Sender: news@convex.UUCP
Reply-To: tchrist@convex.UUCP (Tom Christiansen)
Organization: CONVEX Technical Support Center, Richardson, TX
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In article <585@wc11.idca.tds.philips.nl> ekkel@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl 
    (Erik Ekkel) writes:
>p.s. the standard SysV pager "pg" does cut the lines, but this user interface
>     is what i prefer (also reading from stdin !)

I recently had the experience of using "pg" on a Unicos system, and 
was summarily unipressed.  You call this a pager?  I can't help but
wonder whether Cray's version isn't what is normally run on System V.
It seems so primitive.  Even more is vastly superior to the pg I used,
and less just blows it out of the water!

--tom


    Tom Christiansen              {uiucdcs,ut-sally,sun}!convex!tchrist 
    Convex Computer Corporation                     tchrist@convex.COM
	UNIX Support, Training, and System Administration
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