Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: How does man know? Summary: Please read what I said Keywords: more, io redirection Message-ID: <630@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 29 Sep 89 13:51:06 GMT References: <319@massey.ac.nz> <11170@smoke.BRL.MIL> <592@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <11182@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center Lines: 24 In article <11182@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes: | 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. | | 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? 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. Please understand what I said before disagreeing. To say "No, it isn't" and then paraphrase what I said as a rebuttal doesn't show your best mental capabilities. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon