From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 30 13:11:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA18243 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 1996 13:11:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA18228; Thu, 30 May 1996 13:10:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA28887; Thu, 30 May 1996 13:10:56 -0700 Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 13:10:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny To: Mike Pritchard cc: Sean Kelly , terry@lambert.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: long motd files - screen pause? In-Reply-To: <199605301936.MAA14249@freefall.freebsd.org> 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 Thu, 30 May 1996, Mike Pritchard wrote: > 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. How do you get the motd to be displayed through more like what needs to be done? Vince