More's the PTY...

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5 total messages Started by Stan Switzer Fri, 19 May 1989 14:48

#1369

Author: Stan Switzer
Date: Fri, 19 May 1989 14:48

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Does anyone else find it remarkable that in this day and age people
still view files by running "more" in a window emulating a TTY?

Responses to /dev/rhetorical.

Stan Switzer  sjs@ctt.bellcore.com

Re: More's the PTY...

#1372

Author: Carlo Lisa
Date: Sat, 20 May 1989 20:49

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>>Does anyone else find it remarkable that in this day and age people
>>still view files by running "more" in a window emulating a TTY?

Absolutely TRUE! This is the reason for I'm writing Xless, the X Window
version for less (it's almost ready......).

Carlo Lisa
carlo@athena.mit.edu

Re: More's the PTY...

#1373

Author: Peter da Silva
Date: Sun, 21 May 1989 19:53

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In article <16246@bellcore.bellcore.com>, sjs@spectral.ctt.bellcore.com (Stan Switzer) writes:
> Does anyone else find it remarkable that in this day and age people
> still view files by running "more" in a window emulating a TTY?

I run 'less', myself.

Come up with a standard program-window interface and a file browser with the
capability of less, and I'll switch.

Hell... come up with a program-window interface that's worth a damn. I sure
haven't seen one yet.
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Re: More's the PTY...

#1375

Author: Kee Hinckley
Date: Tue, 23 May 1989 17:01

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In article <16246@bellcore.bellcore.com>, sjs@spectral.ctt.bellcore.com (Stan Switzer) writes:
> Does anyone else find it remarkable that in this day and age people
> still view files by running "more" in a window emulating a TTY?

For 5 years I didn't use more or terminal eumulators.  Just press a key,
type the file name, and poof - a full editor on it, no matter which machine
it was on, in which network, in which building.  Or if I prefered,
point the mouse at the filename, click a button... there was the file.

Now of course I use X, and I'm back to psuedo terminals again.  Oh well.
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Re: More's the PTY...

#1377

Author: Bill Janssen
Date: Fri, 26 May 1989 01:47

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In article <4365854d.1b147@apollo.COM>, nazgul@apollo (Kee Hinckley) writes:
>For 5 years I didn't use more or terminal eumulators.  Just press a key,
>type the file name, and poof - a full editor on it, no matter which machine
>it was on, in which network, in which building.  Or if I prefered,
>point the mouse at the filename, click a button... there was the file.

Umm...  I have the same situation, but I don't suppose you would think that
it counts, seeing as it's GNU Emacs, or for multi-media things, Andrew ez.

>Now of course I use X, and I'm back to psuedo terminals again.

Not necessarily.

Bill

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