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From: dvk@mi-cec.UUCP (Dan Klein)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Disgusting Kernel Hack
Message-ID: <195@mi-cec.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Jan-84 10:48:46 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 26 10:48:46 1984
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Kernel Pagination?  BLEAH!!  I am sorry to inform you folks, but not all
of us like page mode terminal output.  Sure, sometimes I need it, and then
I do a |more.  And if I forget to do it, I use ^S/^Q.  I admit, it would be
very nice to be able to stop a job and redirect the output through "more"
once stopped.  I seem to remember some talk of that during Uniforum.  But
seriously, I *do* like having my output scream off the screen at 9600 baud,
since if there is gobs of output, I can *visually* scan for what I want.
The human pattern recognition system is a marvelous thing - I use it.  (Often
the patterns I want to find in a stream of output are too complex (i.e. multi
line) to be recognized by a paginator.  And when the output I am scanning is
a pile of debug printf's, I don't want to sit there banging the space bar to
bet a page at a time.  It slows me down too much.  So I vote against automatic
pagination unless I can unequivocably disable it when I want to.

		-Dan Klein, Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh