From: htoaster@yabbs
To: Offe@yabbs
Subject: re: Stopping text output?
Date: Sun Apr  3 12:33:48 1994

In message Stopping text output?, Offe said:
> Hello,
> 
> sorry for a stupid question, but is there a way to stop output of a 
> long text (at the <slam> prompt)?

not at this point.  In most of the places where you could get a whole bunch
of text dumped at once I've tried to run it through a pager, so that you
could stop it easily, but the message bases is one place where this hasn't
happened yet.

<slam that key> basically comes from a modified version of puts that counts
how many lines have been printed, and when it reaches a certain number it
pauses.  anytime there is input the counter gets reset, so it effectivly
puts paging onto everything.

the problem is that there isn't a way to tell the pager when one operation
started and the previous one (that you want to skip) stopped.

alex