9 Nov
2015
9 Nov
'15
11:23 p.m.
On Sun, 8 Nov 2015, Clement T. Cole wrote:
Doug
Eric Shienbrood originally wrote more(1) at UCB when he came as a grad
student. It was based on functionality from ITS that he as used to
having at MIT. Summit wrote a similar program with the same called
page(1) and I'm fairly sure it was few years after Eric's program. Btw
page(1) which did not have the same functionality (no termcap or in
there case terminfo yet). Less(1) would show up a few years later and
replace them both.
From my book in progress ...
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Many students were writing various pieces of software not in the context of
some larger purpose, but for their benefit. They were then included when
Joy
% and company
collected up the existing software and distributed it.\cite{halbert1}
In the Berkeley terminal rooms, the dumb terminals beeped
incessantly so most of the bell speakers had been disconnected.
Their \emph{cr3} pager tool rang the terminal bell and waited for a carriage
return after every 24 lines.
The terminals also rang the bell when the cursor advanced near the
right margin on output or keyboard input (like a typewriter
bell).\cite{halbert-jchac1-4}
% TODO: mention cr3 stty mode?
% archives/1970s/2bsd/src/cr3.c says 22 lines and no mention of sound
So Dan Halbert\index{Halbert, Dan}.
who arrived in 1978 as a first-year graduate student,
wrote a pager called \emph{more} that printed ``--More--''
instead of ringing the bell and accepted the space
instead of carriage return to continue. Plus it could take multiple
filenames and print a line of colons around the filenames.
This was inspired by his use of the ITS timesharing systems as an
undergraduate at MIT that put a ``--MORE--'' prompt at the bottom
of the screen when displaying files.\cite{halbert-jchac1-4}
His friends and fellow graduate students, Geoff
Peck\index{Peck, Geoff} and Eric Shienbrood\index{Shienbrood, Eric},
greatly expanded it, adding various
options -- and \emph{more} was added into the next distribution.\cite{halbert1}
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Date: 17 Jun 2010
@MISC{halbert1,
author = {Dan Halbert},
howpublished = "Personal correspondence",
year = 2010,
month = jun
}
@ARTICLE{halbert-jchac1-4,
author = "Dan Halbert",
title = "{THE "MORE" COMMAND IN UNIX}",
journal = "Journal of the Computer History Association of California",
year = 1994,
month = "April-June",
volume = "1",
number = "4" }
Prior to that Chuck Haley had a pager called cr3. Then Bill Joy
simulated that with a filter "stopping output after each page (22
lines) to wait for a carriage return, sending 22 more lines, or a EOF,
sending 10 more lines." (That quote is from the source.)
By the way, I don't have experience with the CR3 control register, and
don't really understand what it means from the hardware perspective.