[4141] in testers
Re: change in behavior of show/next/prev and scan annoying
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Thu May 27 16:56:13 1999
Message-Id: <199905272056.UAA43021@antharia.mit.edu>
To: Alexandra Ellwood <lxs@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 May 1999 16:38:21 EDT."
<199905272038.QAA13242@ethanol.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 16:56:01 -0400
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
> Under 8.3, show/next/prev's viewer has changed such that there's no
> 'b' support for backing up in the file.
It turns out the problem is that with "mhl" as the showproc, when more
gets called, it's reading off stdin instead of reading a file. Irix
more deals, but Solaris more doesn't. "showproc: more" fixes it.
I'm becoming less and less fond of mhl. Maybe we want to just switch
back to "showproc: more"...
(Another nuisance I don't think anyone has commented on yet is that
with mhl as showproc, "show 1 2 3" is much less useful than it used to
be.)
-- Dan
