Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!ka 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 Article-I.D.: hou3c.231 Posted: Thu Feb 2 13:16:15 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 01:25:12 EST References: <557@nsc.UUCP> <2407@fortune.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 23 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.)