Getting the most from 'more' - (nf)

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fortune!rpw3    Feb  7 20:39:00 1984

Gary Samuelson comes close to a compromise when he suggests
more than two levels: kernel and user. We actually have more
than two levels now, as far as the way the user sees it: kernel,
shell, and user.

For the sake of evoking flames, let me suggest changing another
sacred UNIX object instead of the driver: The Shell!

Let the shell [if the user so chooses with the "stty" builtin :-) ]
fork its children with stdin/stdout being pipes to itself, and let the
shell handle paging. It's fast (already in memory), versatile (shell
escapes whenever you stop output, like 'more'), and convenient
(no "|p" to type). Problems with signals? Use pty's instead of pipes.
Need job control? No problem, start another command while the first
is frozen.

Gee... with a little more work we could add windows...

Rob Warnock

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