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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Paging wide ( > 80 char/line) files
Keywords: pager SysV
Message-ID: <8843@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 10 Nov 88 01:39:20 GMT
References: <585@wc11.idca.tds.philips.nl> <697@convex.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <697@convex.UUCP> tchrist@convex.UUCP (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>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 !)

Actually the behavior of "pg" for long lines depends on a flag option.

>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!

UNIX System V "pg" is more versatile than 4.1BSD "more" (I don't know
whether 4.3BSD has enhanced "more").  You may have been misled by not
reading the instructions before using it, since its default behavior
(no options) does seem crufty.

None of these is as good as a terminal that knows how to paginate
and scroll its text windows.