[H-GEN] printing motd a page at a time

Jason Henry Parker henry at freezer.humbug.org.au
Mon Aug 24 21:45:50 EDT 1998


On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 11:31:23AM +1000, Bruce Campbell wrote:
> bah.  Put ^Ls in motd?  and depend on their $PAGER ?   Try reading the
> manpage on 'news(1)' and put that in /etc/profile.

Um, since when did $PAGER get used on /etc/motd?

man motd:

       The  contents of /etc/motd are displayed by login(1) after
       a successful login but just before it executes  the  login
       shell.

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