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Date:      Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:04:35 -0500 (EST)
From:      Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org>
To:        Max Euston <meuston@jmrodgers.com>
Cc:        "'ac199@hwcn.org'" <ac199@hwcn.org>, "'FreeBSD Hackers'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Modifications to more(1)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980218175608.191F-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <01BD3C4C.4336FC60.meuston@jmrodgers.com>

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[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'. 
> 
> From an (old) AT&T SVR4 system: '-#' does not exist, but '+#' is used to 
> start paging at line '#' and '+/<pat>' is to start paging at the RE <pat>. 
> (Was it's intended use? - I don't know, but probably so).

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.


> BTW: style(9) is _very_ close to my own personal preference (that made me 

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? :-) 


--
 tIM...HOEk
OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names
              hoping that the resultant code will run faster.


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