Re: 'more' command?

[Mario Klebsch]

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On Monday,  9. April 2001 13:41, Thierry Laronde wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 12:31:11PM +0200, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote:
> > But this is very inconvinient, since cat doesn't stop after each
> > page, so I have to have many small files.
> >
> > With `more` one could have only few files.
>
> Yes, FWIW, I wanted to add some command for `more'. But at the
> moment, there are several things that prevent me from doing it :

In OS-9 (an almost ancient realtime OS) more was build into the tty
device drivers. There was no need for special command options (like /p
ind the DOS world) or for piping (like in UNIX). There only is a
command for turning paging on and off.

I do not think, this is too much overhead for GRUB (remember it does
have BASH like command line editing). Implementing this probably is
less than 20 lines of C in the output routine. The command to turn if
on and off probably is more complicated than the code itself.

73, Mario
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