[TUHS] pre-more pager?
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Thu Nov 9 08:43:01 AEST 2017
On Wed, 8 Nov 2017, Arthur Krewat wrote:
> ^S (stop) and ^Q (continue) at 1200 baud or less worked OK, especially
> on paper terminals ;) -- (Clem just beat me to it)
I had to implement XON/XOFF in our Edition 6.
> head and tail would work too (although I'm not sure they existed at that
> time, I'm no expert):
When did "pg" come about?
> cat filename | head -20 # get the first page.
> cat filename | head -40 | tail -20 # get the second page.
Arrgghh!! Unnecessary use of a cat pipe!
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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