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From: Chris McGee <newton688@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 : any pager?
Date: Wed,  3 Oct 2018 09:06:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOk9ws1ZC2L0ifr4XpnmX4H_4U0tnMtwWXmEEptsxNTc_pa+RQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181003043136.n66yl7fo3p274gik@v520.kathe.in>

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I like how the pager (page) actually shows a page on the screen with the
text you pipe to it. There's some real truth in the name.

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 12:34 AM Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> wrote:

> thanks nick.
>
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 08:23:47PM -0700, Nick Owens wrote:
> > the pager is p(1).
> > On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 8:22 PM Skip Tavakkolian
> > <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Turn off the scroll in the rio window that the shell is running in,
> then cat the file.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 8:15 PM Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> did plan 9 have any pager? or did every text file to be read had to be
> > >> opened in acme or a similar tool?
> > >>
> > >> btw, is there any pager under plan9port? didn't know what to search
> for,
> > >> hence couldn't find any.
> > >>
> > >> thanks,
> > >>
> > >> ~mayuresh
> > >>
> > >>
> >
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-03 13:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-03  3:14 Mayuresh Kathe
2018-10-03  3:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2018-10-03  3:23   ` Nick Owens
2018-10-03  4:31     ` Mayuresh Kathe
2018-10-03 13:06       ` Chris McGee [this message]
2018-10-04  7:20   ` Ethan Gardener
2018-10-04  8:29     ` Rudolf Sykora
2018-10-04  8:56       ` Ethan Gardener
2018-10-04  9:00       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2018-10-03  3:24 ` Alexander Kapshuk

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