Hey, y'all, how do you install a pager (for reading items?)

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type "define pager more"

If you're using sh, then include a line
PAGER=yourpager
in your .profile.  If you use csh or tcsh, it's
setenv PAGER=yourpager
in your .login.  Or, if you want it only for the bbs, the line
define pager "yourpager"
either from the keyboard or in your .cfonce will do it.  In all of
these, obviously, you use more or less or whatever where I've said
yourpager.

There's a conference called Info intended for questions like this one,
where they stay around after agora is long dead (and hopefully will be
collected, organized, and summarized, eventually).

Greg slipped in.

Thanx lots!

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Addendum to #2:  For sh, in addition to "PAGER=yourpager"
you need the line "export PAGER".

Oooooops.  Thanks, John.

(BTW, this seems someone redundant to item #42)

Anyway, when using "more" to page my reading of conference items, if I "quit"
while reading an item with a certain (large) amount of text (the file) left
unread, the message "Pipe interrupt" is displayed before the "Respond or 
pass?" prompt.  I just had a case where this seemed (the first time) to *not*
update that item as "fully read", so that when I exited the bbs and reran it,
I was given all the unread responses again.  However, after again quitting,
getting the pipe interrupt, exiting the bbs, and rerunning, the second time
the item was marked as "fully read".  No biggie; I've never bothered to
mention this pipe interrupt curiosity until now...  Comments?

Are you asking what that message means?  more sends back a termination code,
& Picospan tells you what it is.  I think.  At any rate, that
shouldn't affect an item's being marked as read.  I do this all the time.

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