More fills the screen it is on, not the screen it was written for
Twenty two lines was right when there was one screen size. It still is on the forty column screen and wastes three fifths of the eighty column one, so More asks the rows register instead - which is readable for exactly this sort of reason. Rows minus three is twenty two on a twenty five row screen, so nothing changed underneath anyone already reading files this way. It fills a bigger screen and leaves a smaller one alone. A bitmap screen has no rows and says so with a nought, which through an eight bit subtraction would be 253 lines. Anything under five falls back. The existing test stopped testing paging the moment this worked: 32 lines fits in a 47 line page, so the file never paged and the recording lost the prompt entirely. The fixture is 60 lines now - the INPUT needed moving, not just the output, which is the failure this project keeps meeting. And cosmosMoreNarrow, which runs Mode first and pages the same file on the forty column screen. Two recordings of one file at 47 lines and at 22: a More that went back to a constant would make them the same length. Both were verified with break.sh, and the first attempt was a bad break rather than a bad test - it replaced one of two reads of the rows port and the other still fetched the real value. Which is a fair argument against reading a port twice, so it is read once and kept now. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E2JrLzFvuFX9fgi1LDRjrW
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| Copy | Copies one path to another a block at a time, including an empty file or one larger than Data Memory. |
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| Compare | Compares two files a block at a time, stopping at their real tails rather than comparing unused bytes in the final disk blocks. |
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| Wander | Goes to the directory it is given and reads a file there by a bare name. The only thing that moves the machine from inside a program, and so the only thing that can check the shell puts the working directory back afterwards. |
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| More | A forward-only pager. Space advances a screen, Return one line, and q stops. |
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| More | A forward-only pager. Space advances a screen, Return one line, and q stops. A screen is as many lines as the screen has, asked of the rows register rather than assumed - 22 on the forty column mode and 47 on the eighty. |
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| Press | Says what the console handed it, in hexadecimal and by name. It reads a line and then keys, because the keys that are not characters are dropped in line mode and delivered in key mode, and both halves of that rule want showing. |
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| Crash | Breaks on purpose, in whichever of the four ways the system now catches, so that a fault screen can be looked at without having written a bug first. |
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| Mode | Forty columns or eighty, whichever the screen is not in. Ten instructions and no data at all, which is the point of it: it is the smallest shape a loadable program can take, and the loader used to stop the machine dead on one. |
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