Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:imagen!geof@su-shasta.arpa From: geof@su-shasta.arpa Newsgroups: net.works Subject: Re: Data Considered Harmful Message-ID: <323@topaz.ARPA> Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 14:28:46 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.323 Posted: Fri Jan 18 14:28:46 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 01:48:43 EST Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 31 From: imagen!geof@su-shasta.arpa Scrolling text gives me trouble too. The best solution I've seen for it is ``terminal wrap mode'' where the system causes just jumps to the beginning of the screen when it gets to the end of the screen. There is no scrolling at all, so you don't have to close your eyes while the text is being printed -- instead you can start reading. In true terminal wrap mode, each line is erased just before it is overwritten, so the entire terminal is still available for use, albeit that the `bottom' of the text is not at the bottom of the terminal. I used to read mail on a 60-line screen by manually generating a ``double buffered'' approach -- the system would stop at the bottom of the screen, and I would ^Q/^S to allow another half screen of text to arrive, so that I was reading the bottom of the screen when the top was being displayed, and vice versa. The MORE command on 4.1/4.2's (though not on some other systems) has a '-c' option (you can say 'more -c' to get it, or 'setenv MORE -c' to always get it) which gives a poor-man's wrap mode, where the screen is cleared between each screenful. I always use this now that I haven't access to true wrap mode, and find it much more pleasant than scrolling. I've tried smooth scroll. I find that it makes matters worse. The thing that gives me a headache is having to scroll my eyes vertically at all. Eyes aren't good at scrolling that way. Anything that requires them to do more eye-scrolling is worse for me, and slow-scroll keeps the text I am looking at in motion for longer each time it happens. - Geof