[pups] Figured some things out.

Hellwig.Geisse at mni.fh-giessen.de Hellwig.Geisse at mni.fh-giessen.de
Thu Mar 9 09:22:24 AEST 2006


On 08-Mar-2006 Kelli Halliburton wrote:
> 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.

Depending on the speed of your simulator, you
could perhaps try to stop the output temporarily
with ^S (and restart it with ^Q). Together with
the ability to scroll backwards within the output
window you should be able to read what is coming
out of your simulated system... ;-)

Good luck,
Hellwig



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