Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:26:19 -0500 From: Max Euston <meuston@jmrodgers.com> To: "'ac199@hwcn.org'" <ac199@hwcn.org> Cc: "'FreeBSD Hackers'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Modifications to more(1) Message-ID: <01BD3E03.222647C0.meuston@jmrodgers.com>
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On Wednesday, February 18, 1998 6:05 PM, Tim Vanderhoek [SMTP:ac199@hwcn.org] wrote: > [This was moved back to the list from email, with my endorsement] > > On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Max Euston wrote: > > > From the code: it is to set the screen height of the terminal > > (override TERM=); you can quickly see this in 'more/option.c'. > [snip] > > Well, I've never used it; toss it. :) It didn't work in > 2.2.0-RELEASE (nor probably before that), and no one noticed. > I found this usage on an SCO system. I checked the CVSweb interface, and it has been broken from the beginning on FreeBSD. I agree that it should be tossed and will remove it since it is also non-standard. > > All style guides are wrong. Style should reflect functionality. > How can the functionality of a thousand-line program, or the > functionality of the gazillion different combinations of > keywords, identifiers, and operators composing one logical > operation ever possibly be reflected in a ~2000 word document? :-) > I agree completely, but I am being _very_ passive since this is my first modification to FreeBSD and I am using it to "learn the ropes" around here (this is also why I chose such a trivial change). ----- Max Euston <meuston@jmrodgers.com> Sysadm, Programmer, etc... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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