[pups] Figured some things out.
Guy Sotomayor
ggs at shiresoft.com
Thu Mar 9 09:01:19 AEST 2006
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 16:59 -0600, Kelli Halliburton wrote:
>
> The site where I got the v7 image was a bit short on instructions. It just had
> the RL image. I was stuck trying to read man pages from within the booted
> system. However, your message has prompted me to try to dig up the manual. I
> have found a set of 3 PDF files, and I have been poking around in them.
Those will get you a long way.
>
> > > Of course, now my problem is that the console is presumed to be a TTY and
> > > not a CRT terminal. And so, man pages just scroll right up and off the
> > > screen. Oh well. I'm sure I'll figure out something. Eventually.
> >
> > In V7, everything was a dumb terminal: termcap and curses did not exist
> > yet. And you were expected to have a paper-based terminal too :)
>
> I was not expecting termcap or curses; I was... *hoping* (still not expecting)
> that perhaps v7 was new enough that the 'simple' type of CRT terminals, the
> ones that were basically just glass TTYs, were in common use. That it would
> be possible to use stty to set the number of rows to n, and that just maybe
> there would be a 'more' command that would only printout the next n lines.
> You know, simple stuff. Nothing about cursor addressable displays, no special
> codes for clearing the screen, or text attributes, just screen paging. At any
> rate, I may sit down at some point and write a 'more' utility of my own. Not
> that I need it for man pages now that I have the offline version of the
> manual, but there are still things like long directory listings that it would
> be useful for.
Of course, you could get the BSD package (1 or 2 ... not 2.x) and
install it. That's how BSD started BTW, things like vi, termcap, more,
etc. were add-ons to v7.
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TTFN - Guy
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