Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!ittvax!bunker!bunkerb!garys From: garys@bunkerb.UUCP (Gary Samuelson) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Getting the most from 'more' Message-ID: <287@bunkerb.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 13:55:33 EST Article-I.D.: bunkerb.287 Posted: Mon Jan 30 13:55:33 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 04:46:58 EST Lines: 27 Scott Miller write: UNIXes grand-pappy (Multics) also has output paging, only it's in the tty driver. Wonderous things like page length, line length, etc. are all selectable (and DE-selectable) via 'stty'. I don't agree that such things belong any lower than a user program, though. Why hang a bag on the side of the Kernel to save the extra typing of '|p' ?? -Scott OK, make all user programs perform paging if the output is a TTY. You don't want to change every user program in existence? Neither do I. Let's change something that they all use whenever writing to a TTY. Now what is it that all programs use when writing to a TTY? The TTY driver. Is it true that UNIX only has two levels, kernel and user program? Other OS's have several. I would not consider a device driver as part of the kernel, but maybe there is no such distinction in UNIX. Why make a change to save typing? Because people don't exist to reduce the work computers have to do; computers exist to reduce the work people have to do. Gary Samuelson ittvax!bunker!bunkerb!garys