From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 30 12:36:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA14255 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 1996 12:36:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mpp@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA14249; Thu, 30 May 1996 12:36:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Pritchard Message-Id: <199605301936.MAA14249@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: long motd files - screen pause? To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 12:36:33 -0700 (PDT) Cc: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, terry@lambert.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199605301528.PAA16583@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at May 30, 96 09:27:57 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sean Kelly wrote: > > >>>>> "Veggy" == Veggy Vinny writes: > > Veggy> Hmmm, okay but how do some machines make the motd > Veggy> pause even before it knows the termcap? > > By ``cheating'' with the default user setup, perhaps. If all you want is to have the thing paged, just run it through more. If the term type is undefined, more will simply pause after 24 lines, assuming that it is a simple "dumb" terminal. You can't screw up too much by assuming that (hard copy terminal maybe, but the right options to more might even eliminate that). If you get lucky, and the terminal type has been supplied by rlogin or whatever, you are even better off. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"