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Xref: sserve comp.mail.misc:16832 comp.unix.bsd:14933 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!cmcl2!phri.nyu.edu!not-for-mail From: jim@phri.nyu.edu (Jim Kyriannis) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: ucbmail, printing composed message-so-far Date: 22 Sep 1994 23:54:02 -0400 Organization: Public Health Research Institute Lines: 27 Message-ID: <35tjgq$2op@phri.phri.nyu.edu> References: <35t6ao$i4n@darkstar.ucsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: phri.phri.nyu.edu In article <35t6ao$i4n@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, James H. Haynes <haynes@cats.ucsc.edu> wrote: > >One of our users brought to my attention that ucbmail offers the ~p escape >to let you read the mail you are composing, but this doesn't output through >the pager so a long message scrolls off the screen. Whereas the Sun version >of the program does use the pager and the "crt" variable on ~p. How about >somebody who's more competent than I adding this feature to ucbmail? >I'd rather not taint the BSD sources by copying in that section from >Sun's AT&T-derived sources. > Sun has two mailers - the Berkeley-based reader in /usr/ucb and the SVR4 version in /usr/bin. Personally, I stick with Berkeley version since it's less buggy. If you want paging in the Berkeley reader, the best you can do is ~v. This will give you an editor which, of course, supports paging among other things. Jim -- --------------- Jim Kyriannis UNIX Systems and Network Administrator Internet mail: jim@phri.nyu.edu The Public Health Research Institute