From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 18:59:23 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] pre-more pager? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: more(1ucb) was written by Eric Shienbrood, who modeled from the functionality from the ITS terminal function he was used to at MIT when he became a grad student around the same time as I did. As for before more(1ucb), we used ^S/^Q and remember many of us were on 30/120 cps dialup terminals. So it was not a problem until direct lines @ 9600 baud became available (plus having enough power in the processor to drive them). Clem On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 6:54 PM, Will Senn wrote: > Hi, > > In looking around the system v7 environment, I don't see a more command > anywhere. I downloaded, converted, and attached 1bsd, 2bsd, and finally > 3bsd and it was there that I found source for more... 3bsd looks like it's > for VAX, not PDP-11, and it doesn't want to compile (looking for some > externs that I gather are part of the distro's clib). > > I may jump ship on V7 and head over to 2.9BSD, which, as I understand it, > is a V7 with fixes and these kind of additional tools... > > In the meantime, how did folks page through text like man sh and such > before more? I know how to view sections of text using sed and ed's ok for > paging file text (painful, but workable). I just can't seem to locate the > idiomatic way of keeping everything from constantly scrolling out of view! > Obviously, this isn't a problem on my mac as terminal works fine, but I > like to try to stay in character as a 1970 time traveling unix user :). > > Thanks, > > Will > > Sent from my iPhone -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: