Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!lll-winken!uunet!van-bc!rsoft!frank From: frank@rsoft.bc.ca (Frank I. Reiter) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: How does man know? Keywords: more, io redirection Message-ID: <53@rsoft.bc.ca> Date: 29 Sep 89 17:55:11 GMT References: <319@massey.ac.nz> <11170@smoke.BRL.MIL> <592@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <11182@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: frank@rsoft.UUCP (Frank I. Reiter) Organization: Reiter Software Inc., British Columbia Lines: 27 In article <592@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: > And guess what? It *is* convenient to have it work that way. In article <11182@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: > >No, it isn't. One can easily add pagination in those cases where it >is desired, but it's much more difficult to defeat wired-in pagination >in those cases where it isn't desired. > >Consider "man whatever > /dev/tty_printer". Why should that try to >paginate? man is optimized for the usual case. The authors obviously expected that the usual case would be interactive use on a terminal but allowed for non- paginated (non-interactive) use if output was not going to a terminal. It is TRIVIAL "to defeat wired-in pagination [etc.]" I don't consider myself any sort of wizard but it took me only a moment to think of: man whatever | cat >/dev/tty_printer for the problem you pose. -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Frank I. Reiter UUCP: {uunet,ubc-cs}!van-bc!rsoft!frank Reiter Software Inc. frank@rsoft.bc.ca, a2@mindlink.UUCP Langley, British Columbia BBS: Mind Link @ (604)533-2312, login as Guest