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From: Barry Masterson <jbarrm@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: long motd files - screen pause?
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Just jumping in here, my other isp has a program/script they call
'givemotd'. It just concatenates & displays the motd on demand. 

I run it and pipe it to 'more'.  I suppose the mac/ms-windows users 
can just scroll back the buffer to read the motd. (I wouldn't know)

Their motd (my backup provider) is always several screens long, it
just flys by.

Barry Masterson
jbarrm@panix.com
jbarrm@dorsai.org
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