From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 4 18:24:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA16149 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 18:24:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA16144 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 18:24:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA02261; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 18:24:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 18:24:36 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: put your name here cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting stdin in more In-Reply-To: <334519A2.4D10@CORENET.NET> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, put your name here wrote: > I was wondering if I just do a more on a file everthing looks fine to > me, but if I do a grep on a file and | the output to more or if I am > looking at a man page I get an STDIN line at the bottom of the page > instead of the file name and a percentage. How can I get the file name > and percentage at the bottom of my man pages and piped output. I have > setenv PAGER more in my .login file and I get this useing FreeBSD > 2.1.6, 2.1.7, and 2.2.1 possibly others these are just the ones I use. This is normal. The biggest problem with stdin is that it isn't read in at one time, so more can't check the total size. STDIN is the filename, standard input. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major