kathyw@stl-08sima.army.mil (Kathy Wilson) (09/19/89)
Hello, We have a Unisys 5000/80 running System 5.3. Does 'pg' utility have an environment variable which can be set, to automatically run options such as 'pg -cn'? I know the 'more' command has an environment variable called MORE. I was hoping 'pg' would have something similar. Any suggestions? Kathy Wilson Dept. of Army SIMA, St. Louis
davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (09/19/89)
In article <20897@adm.BRL.MIL>, kathyw@stl-08sima.army.mil (Kathy Wilson) writes: | We have a Unisys 5000/80 running System 5.3. Does 'pg' | utility... | [ questions about options to pg in env ] | similar. Any suggestions? My best suggestion is to use 'less' as a pager, from the archives. The recent versions are in comp.sources.unix or comp.sources.misc, and I think a useable beta of the latest release just came over alt.sources. I don't believe that pg checks for options, although some versions check for page size. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@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
cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) (09/20/89)
In article <20897@adm.BRL.MIL>, kathyw@stl-08sima.army.mil (Kathy Wilson) writes: > We have a Unisys 5000/80 running System 5.3. Does 'pg' > utility have an environment variable which can be set, > to automatically run options such as 'pg -cn'? I For "standard" system V R3.2 the only environment variable use directly by pg is SHELL. It does, via curses, however use the "LINES" variable for the number of lines on a screen. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Conor P. Cahill uunet!virtech!cpcahil 703-430-9247 ! | Virtual Technologies Inc., P. O. Box 876, Sterling, VA 22170 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
benji@hpfcdq.HP.COM (Jeff Benjamin) (09/21/89)
kathyw@stl-08sima.army.mil (Kathy Wilson) writes: > We have a Unisys 5000/80 running System 5.3. Does 'pg' > utility have an environment variable which can be set, > to automatically run options such as 'pg -cn'? Yes, it's "PG." I use: PG="-ns =p --more(p%d)--"; export PG in my .kshrc. P.S. This *is* in the manpage. ----- Jeff Benjamin {ucbvax,hplabs}!hpfcla!benji Graphics Technology Division benji%hpfcla@hplabs.HP.COM Hewlett Packard Co. Fort Collins, Colorado
benji@hpfcdq.HP.COM (Jeff Benjamin) (09/22/89)
> > We have a Unisys 5000/80 running System 5.3. Does 'pg' > > utility have an environment variable which can be set, > > to automatically run options such as 'pg -cn'? > > Yes, it's "PG." I use: > > PG="-ns =p --more(p%d)--"; export PG Oops. This is an HP-UX-ism, not a SysV-ism. I was too hasty; I figured since HP-UX conforms to the SVID... Sorry to mislead anybody. Instead, why not just set up an alias for pg that includes the option: alias pg="pg -ns -p --more(p%d)--" > P.S. This *is* in the manpage. Well, it was in my manpage :-} ----- Jeff Benjamin {ucbvax,hplabs}!hpfcla!benji Graphics Technology Division benji%hpfcla@hplabs.HP.COM Hewlett Packard Co. Fort Collins, Colorado