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From: Hellwig.Geisse@mni.fh-giessen.de (Hellwig.Geisse@mni.fh-giessen.de)
Subject: [pups] Figured some things out.
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:22:24 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20060309002224.Hellwig.Geisse@mni.fh-giessen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603081659.36885.kelli217@gmail.com>


On 08-Mar-2006 Kelli Halliburton wrote:
> I was not expecting termcap or curses; I was... *hoping* (still not
> expecting) 
> that perhaps v7 was new enough that the 'simple' type of CRT terminals, the 
> ones that were basically just glass TTYs, were in common use. That it would 
> be possible to use stty to set the number of rows to n, and that just maybe 
> there would be a 'more' command that would only printout the next n lines. 
> You know, simple stuff. Nothing about cursor addressable displays, no special
> codes for clearing the screen, or text attributes, just screen paging. At any
> rate, I may sit down at some point and write a 'more' utility of my own. Not 
> that I need it for man pages now that I have the offline version of the 
> manual, but there are still things like long directory listings that it would
> be useful for.

Depending on the speed of your simulator, you
could perhaps try to stop the output temporarily
with ^S (and restart it with ^Q). Together with
the ability to scroll backwards within the output
window you should be able to read what is coming
out of your simulated system... ;-)

Good luck,
Hellwig



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-08 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-08 20:27 Kelli Halliburton
2006-03-08 22:15 ` Warren Toomey
2006-03-08 22:59   ` Kelli Halliburton
2006-03-08 23:01     ` Guy Sotomayor
2006-03-09 11:54       ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-08 23:22     ` Hellwig.Geisse [this message]
2006-03-09  0:02       ` Kelli Halliburton
2006-03-09  5:15         ` Efton Collins
2006-03-09 12:10           ` Hellwig.Geisse
2006-03-09  0:01 John Holden

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