From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 28 10:45:55 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA07465 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 28 Jan 1995 10:45:55 -0800 Received: from prosun.first.gmd.de (prosun.first.gmd.de [192.35.150.136]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA07458 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 1995 10:45:50 -0800 Received: from g386bsd.first.gmd.de by prosun.first.gmd.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06481; Sat, 28 Jan 95 19:45:30 +0100 Received: by g386bsd.first.gmd.de (TAA21959); Sat, 28 Jan 1995 19:46:45 +0100 From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199501281846.TAA21959@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: Man Pages To: adhir@bigdipper.umd.edu (Alok K. Dhir) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 19:46:44 +0059 (MET) Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: from "Alok K. Dhir" at Jan 28, 95 09:58:22 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 556 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On the subject of man pages - here's something that's been bugging me > since the 1.1.5.1... Why does the "more" prompt at the bottom always say > "stdin" when looking at a man page? Shouldn't it say nn%? More can't show the percent of the file, if it gets the file from stdin. It simply can't determine how much more will be coming from the pipe. ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe