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From: reed@reedmedia.net (Jeremy C. Reed)
Subject: [TUHS] pre-more pager?
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 13:31:27 -0600 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.20.1711081317310.57@t1.m.reedmedia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9dc0fdd2-d4d4-8375-2117-a744e1b8f88a@kilonet.net>

The first and second BSD has cr3 "This filter simulates chuck haleys 
cr3, stopping output after each page (22 lines) to wait for a carriage 
return, sending 22 more lines, or a EOF, sending 10 more lines."

From my Berkeley book in progress:

In the Berkeley terminal rooms, the dumb terminals beeped
incessantly so most of the bell speakers had been disconnected.
Their \emph{cr3} pager tool rang the terminal bell and waited for a 
carriage
return after every 24 lines.
The terminals also rang the bell when the cursor advanced near the
right margin on output or keyboard input (like a typewriter
bell).\cite{halbert-jchac1-4}

% TODO: mention cr3 stty mode?
% archives/1970s/2bsd/src/cr3.c says 22 lines and no mention of sound
% what about that?

So Dan Halbert\index{Halbert, Dan}.
who arrived in 1978 as a first-year graduate student,
wrote a pager called \emph{more} that printed ``--More--''
instead of ringing the bell and accepted the space
instead of carriage return to continue. Plus it could take multiple
filenames and print a line of colons around the filenames.
This was inspired by his use of the ITS timesharing systems as an
undergraduate at MIT that put a ``--MORE--'' prompt at the bottom
of the screen when displaying files.\cite{halbert-jchac1-4}

His friends and fellow graduate students, Geoff
Peck\index{Peck, Geoff} and Eric Shienbrood\index{Shienbrood, Eric},
greatly expanded it, adding various
options -- and \emph{more} was added into the next 
distribution.\cite{halbert1}


Date: 17 Jun 2010
@MISC{halbert1,
  author = {Dan Halbert},
  howpublished = "Personal correspondence",
  year = 2010,
  month = jun
}

@ARTICLE{halbert-jchac1-4,
 author = "Dan Halbert",
 title = "{THE "MORE" COMMAND IN UNIX}",
 journal = "Journal of the Computer History Association of California",
 year = 1994,
 month = "April-June",
 volume = "1",
 number = "4" }



  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-08 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-08 18:54 Will Senn
2017-11-08 18:59 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-08 19:06 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-08 19:31   ` Jeremy C. Reed [this message]
2017-11-08 22:43   ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-08 22:47     ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-08 23:21       ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-09  4:38         ` Will Senn
2017-11-09 13:18           ` Dan Cross
2017-11-09 14:29             ` Will Senn
2017-11-09 20:53           ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-10  0:15             ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-10  2:14               ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-08 19:12 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-08 19:22 ` Random832
2017-11-08 21:18   ` Will Senn
2017-11-08 21:59     ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 22:00     ` Clem Cole
2017-11-08 22:18       ` Will Senn
2017-11-09  2:01   ` Steve Johnson
2017-11-09  2:16     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-11-08 19:29 ` Forrest, Jon
2017-11-08 19:43   ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 21:03   ` Mark Green
2017-11-08 19:23 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-08 20:02 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-08 20:11 ` Forrest, Jon
2017-11-10  5:26   ` Random832
2017-11-10  7:31     ` Otto Moerbeek
2017-11-08 20:18 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-08 20:28   ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 22:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-08 20:28 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-08 22:02 Paul Ruizendaal
2017-11-08 22:20 ` Will Senn
2017-11-08 22:58 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-09 13:33 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-09 16:19 Norman Wilson
2017-11-09 16:48 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-09 17:19   ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-09 18:15     ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-09 18:26     ` Arthur Krewat

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