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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: <11182@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 28 Sep 89 21:35:06 GMT
References: <319@massey.ac.nz> <11170@smoke.BRL.MIL> <592@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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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?