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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.
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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.