8 Nov
2017
8 Nov
'17
8:06 p.m.
^S (stop) and ^Q (continue) at 1200 baud or less worked OK, especially
on paper terminals ;) -- (Clem just beat me to it)
head and tail would work too (although I'm not sure they existed at that
time, I'm no expert):
cat filename | head -20 # get the first page.
cat filename | head -40 | tail -20 # get the second page.
<ad infinitum>
etc.
On 11/8/2017 1:54 PM, Will Senn wrote:
Hi,
In looking around the system v7 environment, I don't see a more command anywhere. I
downloaded, converted, and attached 1bsd, 2bsd, and finally 3bsd and it was there that I
found source for more... 3bsd looks like it's for VAX, not PDP-11, and it
doesn't want to compile (looking for some externs that I gather are part of the
distro's clib).
I may jump ship on V7 and head over to 2.9BSD, which, as I understand it, is a V7 with
fixes and these kind of additional tools...
In the meantime, how did folks page through text like man sh and such before more? I know
how to view sections of text using sed and ed's ok for paging file text (painful, but
workable). I just can't seem to locate the idiomatic way of keeping everything from
constantly scrolling out of view! Obviously, this isn't a problem on my mac as
terminal works fine, but I like to try to stay in character as a 1970 time traveling unix
user :).
Thanks,
Will
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