From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 1 11:29:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA16116 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 11:29:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA16107 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 11:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA22021; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 11:25:57 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199606011825.LAA22021@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: long motd files - screen pause? To: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Veggy Vinny) Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 11:25:57 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Veggy Vinny" at May 31, 96 07:45:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > If they are xterm, then you can't set vt100 in /etc/ttys for them. > > > > If all the vt100's are direct connect, and all the xterms are network, > > then it'll work. > > But remote connections won't work? I wonder what did CSUA do because > it works for all different terms... 1) They decided to limit the choices. You have yet to put any real limit on what you expect to be connecting to your machine and getting the motd, or the way it's going to be connecting. 2) They fail; you just haven't seen it because you've always used one of the approaches that happens to work. If you use 24/25 line terminals, it's likely that the defaults for "more" would work for you. If you used asn old VT52 12 line terminal, or a large xterm or MS-Windows Telnet window, it *won't* work for you period. This is why I say that what you want to do should not be done in the login program. You are trying to use the wrong tool (motd) to solve your problem. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.