[hacknews] stty, setpage improved

henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (09/20/84)

Stty(1) has been altered so that just "stty page", without any further
details, turns paging on and sets ALL the paging parameters suitably
for the terminal.  Setpage(1) has been altered to use this, which means
that the only thing setpage now does is to decide whether paging should
be on or off (based on whether the terminal is hardcopy or not).

Neither of these functions should need to be used very often, since getty
now does the equivalent of "setpage" automatically at login time.  Everyone
who has "setpage" in their .profile(s) should take it out, unless you're
adjusting the TERM variable, in which case you may need to do "setpage" or
(quicker, if you know the new TERM is a crt) "stty page" after you do.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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