Re: help doesn't list all any longer

[Mario Klebsch]

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On Tuesday,  5. February 2002 15:43, Simon Law wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Christoph Plattner wrote:
> > Hello !
> >
> > I do not think, it is a good idea, as the "help" is a convinient
> > list as summary.
> >
> > I would prefer two other solutions:
> >
> > *1* a `more' like function in "help" without argument

>       More (or less) like output would be very nice.  The cat command
> would benefit from this as well!

It can be really simple. In OS-9 it was inmplemented in the tty device
driver. Output stopped after 24 lines, the counter was reset on any
keypress, 1 keypress was ignored, when it hit the system during wait
state (to not let the wake-up-key make its way to the application).

Of course, there was a command to change the number of lines and to
disable this feature (they set lines to 0).

I liked this build-in more very much and missed it a thousand times in
other OSes.

BTW, when I worked on SunOS3.5 with suntools, the suntools terminal
emulator had this feature, too. The cursor changed to a stop sign, when
the output was halted.

73, Mario
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