How does man know?

[Richard Tobin]

In article <2258 at munnari.oz.au> ok at cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
>Because pausing every so often is a function of *terminal* output,
>not a function of output in general, so it belongs ``near'' the terminal.

Generally, I agree with this.  To do it right, however, requires a
little care.  The terminal driver has to know, for example, what the
terminal's clear-screen character is and what its line-wrapping
characteristics are, otherwise it will lose track.  General cursor
addressing will have the same problem, but presumably a program doing
that will disable the automatic paging.

-- Richard
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