From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Oct 20 18:03:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA25487 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 18:03:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA25480 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 18:03:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-128.laker.net [208.0.233.28]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id VAA30851; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 21:02:33 -0400 Message-Id: <199810210102.VAA30851@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Brett Glass" , "Studded" Cc: "bugs@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 21:01:36 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: No terminal echo after certain commands Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:19:22 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: >P.S. -- I don't see anything on the man page that says there's any problem with terminating "more" via ^C. It seems to me that it should know how to handle SIGINT. It DOES. You don't understand that SIGINT is NOT a general purpose exit. If it were, no UNIX utility would have used something like q to exit gracefully. SIGINT is NOT a graceful exit, but an immediate one. Use q to exit more. Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message