Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 5/22/85; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!cbosgd!mark From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) Newsgroups: net.micro.att,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Re: instability in Berkeley versus AT&T releases (absurdly long) Message-ID: <1408@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 01:14:52 EDT Article-I.D.: cbosgd.1408 Posted: Sun Aug 18 01:14:52 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 22:17:52 EDT References: <2067@ucf-cs.UUCP> <363@cuae2.UUCP> <2423@sun.uucp> <1392@cbosgd.UUCP> <5877@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Oh Lines: 13 Xref: linus net.micro.att:484 net.unix-wizards:11604 In article <5877@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: >From *both* viewpoints, it is simpler to have pagination available in the >tty driver. This means that the implementors don't have to kludge it into >every program, and the users need neither lightning reflexes nor high >sophistication. Try it, you'll like it. We have page mode in our tty driver too. I agree that it's a win to have page mode. However, in the specific case of the ls command, it's still much better to have it come out in columns. It's really useful to be able to see the entire directory at once, instead of having to look at it in snippets of 24 lines. Mark