Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Problem with telnetting from NCR Tower w/Excelan to DG AOS/VS
Message-ID: <1989May7.005750.25059@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <27@harald.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 7 May 89 00:57:50 GMT

In article <27@harald.UUCP> d.jba@harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen) writes:
>I have a small problem with Excelan's telnet for the NCR Tower.
>It only occurs when I telnet to a DG machine running AOS/VS.
> ...
>When I do a 'cat', 'ls' or anything else that outputs more than a couple
>of lines, output seems to be suspended every 1/2 page, just as if I had
>been using 'more' or 'pg'...

Almost certainly this has nothing to do with Telnet, but is a feature of
the DG host.  Such built-in terminal paging is not uncommon; a number of
people (myself included) have implemented it on various Unix systems, on
the theory that potentially-valuable output should not run off the screen
without permission.  (Please note:  tcp-ip doesn't seem the right place 
to debate the correctness of this theory.)
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