How does man know?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <630 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen at crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
-In article <11182 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
-|  Consider "man whatever > /dev/tty_printer".  Why should that try to
-|  paginate?
-  That's exactly what I said. The original poster said it was stupid to
-disable pagination when not going to a tty. I said it was very
-convenient to have it work that way and showed examples similar to yours
-of why.

Except I show output GOING to a tty.

Also, I don't recall anyone saying that it was stupid to disable
pagination when not going to a tty, although several of us have
said that it is stupid to automatically paginate when going to a
tty.

-  Please understand what I said before disagreeing.

You might take your own advice.