Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: How does man know? Keywords: more, io redirection Message-ID: <11193@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 30 Sep 89 01:21:42 GMT References: <319@massey.ac.nz> <11170@smoke.BRL.MIL> <592@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <11182@smoke.BRL.MIL> <630@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 19 In article <630@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: -In article <11182@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes: -| Consider "man whatever > /dev/tty_printer". Why should that try to -| paginate? - That's exactly what I said. The original poster said it was stupid to -disable pagination when not going to a tty. I said it was very -convenient to have it work that way and showed examples similar to yours -of why. Except I show output GOING to a tty. Also, I don't recall anyone saying that it was stupid to disable pagination when not going to a tty, although several of us have said that it is stupid to automatically paginate when going to a tty. - Please understand what I said before disagreeing. You might take your own advice.