Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 13:10:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: Mike Pritchard <mpp@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>, terry@lambert.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: long motd files - screen pause? Message-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960530131015.29367b-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199605301936.MAA14249@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 30 May 1996, Mike Pritchard wrote: > Sean Kelly wrote: > > > > >>>>> "Veggy" == Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> writes: > > > > Veggy> Hmmm, okay but how do some machines make the motd > > Veggy> pause even before it knows the termcap? > > > > By ``cheating'' with the default user setup, perhaps. > > If all you want is to have the thing paged, just run > it through more. If the term type is undefined, more > will simply pause after 24 lines, assuming that it is > a simple "dumb" terminal. You can't screw up too > much by assuming that (hard copy terminal maybe, but > the right options to more might even eliminate that). > If you get lucky, and the terminal type has been supplied > by rlogin or whatever, you are even better off. How do you get the motd to be displayed through more like what needs to be done? Vince
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