more leaves terminal in ul mode - (nf)

berry at zehntel.UUCP berry at zehntel.UUCP
Tue Jan 17 19:24:14 AEST 1984


#R:amd70:-422100:zinfandel:12400043:000:635
zinfandel!berry    Jan 16 12:41:00 1984

	"Better still, put terminal paging into the tty driver, then you can 
	throw more away (in more ways than one). You don't need much more than
	"cat" any more (with fewer, rather than more, options)."

--Jim McKie  Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam  ..mcvax!jim
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I don't believe this!  How is the tty driver supposed to find out how many 
lines your screen has?  And how do you tell it when you want paging and when 
you don't?  With an ioctl() or fcntl()?  Then you need a program to do it.

Ick.  Might as well keep more.

Berry Kercheval		Zehntel Inc.	(ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry)
(415)932-6900



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