instability in Berkeley versus AT&T releases (absurdly long)

Mark Horton mark at cbosgd.UUCP
Sun Aug 18 15:14:52 AEST 1985


In article <5877 at utzoo.UUCP> henry at utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>From *both* viewpoints, it is simpler to have pagination available in the
>tty driver.  This means that the implementors don't have to kludge it into
>every program, and the users need neither lightning reflexes nor high
>sophistication.	 Try it, you'll like it.

We have page mode in our tty driver too.  I agree that it's a win to have
page mode.  However, in the specific case of the ls command, it's still
much better to have it come out in columns.  It's really useful to be
able to see the entire directory at once, instead of having to look at it
in snippets of 24 lines.

	Mark



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