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Date:      Thu, 30 May 1996 15:40:19 -0600
From:      Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>
To:        mpp@freefall.freebsd.org
Cc:        richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: long motd files - screen pause?
Message-ID:  <199605302140.VAA18600@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov>
In-Reply-To: <199605301936.MAA14249@freefall.freebsd.org> (message from Mike Pritchard on Thu, 30 May 1996 12:36:33 -0700 (PDT))

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>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Pritchard <mpp@freefall.freebsd.org> writes:

    Mike> If all you want is to have the thing paged, just run it
    Mike> through more.

Right, except that it'll be displayed twice then---once by
/usr/bin/login, and once by /usr/bin/more.  Unless you're suggesting a
modified /usr/bin/login which fork's a more.

-- 
Sean Kelly                          
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory    kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Boulder Colorado USA                http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/



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