Re: cat with pagination

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:29:24PM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> > 
> > There has been also a talk to enable pager=1 as a default.
> 
> Which, as I recall, Okuji rejected because it could cause a
> unattended/non-interactive boot process to hang unexpectedly if too
> much output was produced for some reason.
> 
> Perhaps the pager could default to being enabled whenever an
> interactive command line is in use, but default to disabled when the
> invoking command is not being executed from an interactive command line.
> This would be the most logical solution IMO.

Better CC him.

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