From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 12:33:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA28521 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 May 1996 12:33:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA28514 for ; Wed, 29 May 1996 12:33:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA21671; Wed, 29 May 1996 12:33:19 -0700 Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 12:33:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny To: Terry Lambert cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: long motd files - screen pause? In-Reply-To: <199605291734.KAA13732@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 May 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Greetings everyone, > > > > Does anyone know how to get the screen to pause after each page > > for long motd files? Thanks! > > Soloution #1: > > Hack /bin/login to system 'more'; then after you are > logged in, set your terminal type so login's more will > page at the right length. Wait, that won't work, since > the information is not available until after you are > logged in. 8-). Didn't think that would either... > Soloution #2: > > Use a smaller motd. Use the UNIX 'news' package (*not* netnews) > in the /etc/csh/cshrc, et al. I'm not sure how CSUA.Berkeley.EDU does it, it's running on a Sequent machine running Dynix but would news do it? Vince