Re: Piping problems

George Cordahi (cordahi@io.org)
Sat, 23 Nov 1996 23:14:46 -0500

In article <L0ykyUmo3k4M089yn@mcs.com>, bobr@mcs.com (Robert P. Rush) wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Sat, 16 Nov 1996 13:01:08 -0500,
>In article <kFgjyclh5biN092yn@io.org>,
>cordahi@io.org (George Cordahi) wrote:

>>1. Yarnx (0.92) under DRDOS 6. It is called from a batch file that does
>> several things before firing up Yarnx
>>
>> I successfully pipe messages to List and also to 'sort' and 'find'.
>> With 'more', the screen blanks out temporarily, and then I get the yarn
>> view again.
>>
>> 'More' does work from the Dos prompt.
>
>I can't say specificly for DRDOS, but more will exit as soon as it
>reaches the end of the file. In your case, more writes out less than
>one screenfull of text, exits, then Yarn immediately erases the screen
>and writes its own screen.
>

No. I specifically checked the behavior on messages that exceed a screen in
length. Also, I strongly doubt that its a DRDOS problem. I suspect
something much more subtle.

gc

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