Re: 'more' command?

[Thierry Laronde]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 06:28:58PM +0200, Mario Klebsch wrote:
> 
> In OS-9 (an almost ancient realtime OS) more was build into the tty
> device drivers. There was no need for special command options (like /p
> ind the DOS world) or for piping (like in UNIX). There only is a
> command for turning paging on and off.
> 
> I do not think, this is too much overhead for GRUB (remember it does
> have BASH like command line editing). Implementing this probably is
> less than 20 lines of C in the output routine. The command to turn if
> on and off probably is more complicated than the code itself.

Implementing `more' is not "hard". It is just that at the moment there
are other priorities (to reach 1.0), and that it's perhaps not a good
idea _now_ to keep adding commands not directly linked to bootstrapping.
But YMMV.
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