On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:20:02 +0100, Stroller wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?:

>On 15 Mar 2010, at 17:08, David W Noon wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:00:02 +0100, Willie Wong wrote about Re:
>> [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?:
>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:15:08PM +0000, David W Noon wrote:
>>>> You run your emerge --sync jobs by hand?!!!
>>>
>>> Why is that surprising?
>>
>> Because emerge jobs produce copious amounts of output that is  
>> difficult
>> to read as it scrolls past.  I much prefer the cron daemon or at  
>> daemon
>> to send me the output as email, so I can scroll backwards and
>> forwards through it at my leisure.
>
>`man screen`

I don't have a man page for "screen".

I do know `man less`, `man more`, etc., and output redirection to file.
Heck, I'm even old enough to know Ctl+S and Ctl+Q, as I used to
program PDP-11s back in the 1970s. But none of those addresses the
fundamental issue of sitting there watching all this crap. Hence I
normally use fcron or at to run my emerge jobs in the background, which,
as a fringe benefit, gives me easily scrollable output in my MUA.
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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