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From: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Automatic Paging/"More"ing
Message-ID: <231@hou3c.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 13:16:15 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  2 13:16:15 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 01:25:12 EST
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Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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If we are going to have a discussion of the value of pagers people
should say a little about their hardware environment.  First, it
makes a great deal of difference what speed your terminal is set to.
At 1200 baud ^S/^Q work fine; at 9600 baud they are a lot harder to
use.  The number of lines of memory in your terminal also makes a
big difference, since with a decent amount of memory you can just
scroll backwards to look a something if it slips by.

Personally, I usually run at 1200 baud and have never used a terminal
with only 24 lines of memory.  I practically never use a paging
program (although I do use Emacs to look at files), and given my
current hardware I don't even view typing a space at the bottom of
every page acceptable, much less desireable.
				Kenneth Almquist


P.S.  I'm not sure I understand the bit about stuff running off the
screen while you aren't watching it.  You can type a ^S before any
output appears, and then later type ^Q to see if output is available
yet.  Alternatively, you can always redirect stuff to a file.  (I
know you can't ^Z a program and continue it with its output redirected
to a file; but the solution to that is probably to fix the job control
stuff so you can.)