inst

Andrew Hume andrew at alice.UUCP
Fri Dec 8 09:44:58 AEST 1989



it is possible in general to ignore the horrible crap
present everywhere in SGI (and MIPS and perhaps all system V's)
about stupid pagers getting in the way by setting PAGER=cat.

the most notable exception is inst which appears to use
either its own or ignores $PAGER. can this get fixed for the next release?
furthermore, it does one byte reads and thus screws up people
for whom the stty fails (like coming in over a network).
(for example, trying to do a manual install of everything
means responding to the more? prompt with " 4\n".)

i also note that installing the 3.2 tape 1 assumes you have /etc in your path
(it just does a mknod).



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