[Techtalk] standard input and the more command

[Nils Philippsen]

On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 07:29, Zohar Itai wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   I've been pondering this question for a while.
> 
>   How does the more command seperate the standard input intended to be
> viewed, from the standard input used as scrolling commands? Is there a short
> program that demonstrates the concept?

I guess that it reads the key presses directly from the terminal instead
from the stdin stream (e.g. more uses libtermcap on my computer). I'd
just look at its source code (in util-linux here).

Nils
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