Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 12:36:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Pritchard <mpp> To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Cc: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, terry@lambert.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: long motd files - screen pause? Message-ID: <199605301936.MAA14249@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199605301528.PAA16583@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at May 30, 96 09:27:57 am
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Sean Kelly wrote: > > >>>>> "Veggy" == Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> writes: > > Veggy> Hmmm, okay but how do some machines make the motd > Veggy> pause even before it knows the termcap? > > By ``cheating'' with the default user setup, perhaps. If all you want is to have the thing paged, just run it through more. If the term type is undefined, more will simply pause after 24 lines, assuming that it is a simple "dumb" terminal. You can't screw up too much by assuming that (hard copy terminal maybe, but the right options to more might even eliminate that). If you get lucky, and the terminal type has been supplied by rlogin or whatever, you are even better off. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"
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