Re: [Freedos-devel] User interface

2005-02-25 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 24-Фев-2005 13:43 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [email protected]: EA> to know more... Or, alternatively, call something like EA> if (isatty(1)) { printf("-- more --"); r.h.ah = 7; intdos(&r, &r); EA> printf("\n"); } EA> after every 20something lines of help screen.

Re: [Freedos-devel] User interface

2005-02-25 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Johnson, I agree that there are problems with help screens which are more than 1 page long. However, I do not suggest to call MORE or other tools. The better solution is to keep the help screen limited to 1 page and do something like program /? > program.txt edit program.txt to create a more ve

[Freedos-devel] User interface

2005-02-23 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:06:38 +0300 (MSK), you wrote: Sorry for breaking in ... >MD> In the end-user software world, ugly isn't neutral, ugly hurts. > (May be true in the real world, too, but I leave that for the sociologists > and psychologists to work on). The program's target is for "end-user