How does man know?

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

In article <11182 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
|  In article <592 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen at crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
|  >  And guess what? It *is* convenient to have it work that way.
|  
|  No, it isn't.  One can easily add pagination in those cases where it
|  is desired, but it's much more difficult to defeat wired-in pagination
|  in those cases where it isn't desired.
|  
|  Consider "man whatever > /dev/tty_printer".  Why should that try to
|  paginate?

  That's exactly what I said. The original poster said it was stupid to
disable pagination when not going to a tty. I said it was very
convenient to have it work that way and showed examples similar to yours
of why.

  Please understand what I said before disagreeing. To say "No, it
isn't" and then paraphrase what I said as a rebuttal doesn't show your
best mental capabilities.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen at crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon