From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 20 10:33:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA08668 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:33:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.jmrodgers.com ([205.247.224.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA08637 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:33:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from meuston@jmrodgers.com) Received: from max.jmrodgers.com (max.jmrodgers.com [205.247.224.209]) by mail.jmrodgers.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA16048; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:38:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from meuston@jmrodgers.com) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:26:21 -0500 Message-ID: <01BD3E03.222647C0.meuston@jmrodgers.com> From: Max Euston To: "'ac199@hwcn.org'" Cc: "'FreeBSD Hackers'" Subject: RE: Modifications to more(1) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:26:19 -0500 Organization: J.M. Rodgers Co., Inc. X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 Sysadm, Programmer, etc... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message