The early history of the UNIX “more” command

Dan Halbert, writing on danhalbert.org, tells how he came to write the Unix more command in 1978 as a first-year graduate student at UC Berkeley. The piece first ran on comp.society.folklore in 1994 and then in The ANALYTICAL ENGINE. Berkeley already had a small program called cr3 that printed 24 lines and rang the terminal […]

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