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Date:      Fri, 4 Apr 1997 18:24:36 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        put your name here <dahc@CORENET.NET>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: getting stdin in more
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970404182336.2227D-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <334519A2.4D10@CORENET.NET>

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On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, put your name here wrote:

> I was wondering if I just do a more on a file everthing looks fine to 
> me, but if I do a grep on a file and | the output to more or if I am 
> looking at a man page I get an STDIN line at the bottom of the page 
> instead of the file name and a percentage. How can I get the file name 
> and percentage at the bottom of my man pages and piped output. I have 
> setenv PAGER more in my .login file and I get this useing FreeBSD 
> 2.1.6, 2.1.7, and 2.2.1 possibly others these are just the ones I use.

This is normal.  The biggest problem with stdin is that it isn't read in
at one time, so more can't check the total size.

STDIN is the filename, standard input. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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