Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!duke!mcnc!idis!mi-cec!dvk 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 Article-I.D.: mi-cec.195 Posted: Thu Jan 26 10:48:46 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 09:27:17 EST Lines: 15 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