8 Mar
2006
8 Mar
'06
11:01 p.m.
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 16:59 -0600, Kelli Halliburton wrote:
I was not expecting termcap or curses; I was... *hoping* (still not expecting)
that perhaps v7 was new enough that the 'simple' type of CRT terminals, the
ones that were basically just glass TTYs, were in common use. That it would
be possible to use stty to set the number of rows to n, and that just maybe
there would be a 'more' command that would only printout the next n lines.
You know, simple stuff. Nothing about cursor addressable displays, no special
codes for clearing the screen, or text attributes, just screen paging. At any
rate, I may sit down at some point and write a 'more' utility of my own. Not
that I need it for man pages now that I have the offline version of the
manual, but there are still things like long directory listings that it would
be useful for.
Of course, you could get the BSD package (1 or 2 ... not 2.x) and
install it. That's how BSD started BTW, things like vi, termcap, more,
etc. were add-ons to v7.
--
TTFN - Guy
The site where I got the v7 image was a bit short on instructions. It just had
the RL image. I was stuck trying to read man pages from within the booted
system. However, your message has prompted me to try to dig up the manual. I
have found a set of 3 PDF files, and I have been poking around in them.
Those will get you a long way.
Of
course, now my problem is that the console is presumed to be a TTY and
not a CRT terminal. And so, man pages just scroll right up and off the
screen. Oh well. I'm sure I'll figure out something. Eventually.
In V7, everything was a dumb terminal: termcap and curses did not exist
yet. And you were expected to have a paper-based terminal too :)