[rancid] Re: assistance with removing pager from Dell script

[Jeremy Singletary]

On 10/06/09, john heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> said:
> Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 10:40:09PM -0700, Jeremy Singletary:
> > On 10/05/09, Deny IP Any Any <denyipanyany at gmail.com> said:
> > > It has worked fine for months; after making a minor change to one of
> > > the Dell switch's configs, now I'm occasionally seeing parts of the
> > > pager in my diffs:
> > 
> > If your dell has the 'terminal datadump' command it would be easier to
> > edit the code to send that command than trying to match the pager prompts.
> 
> that leaves the login script less usable for other automation.

How does it make it less usable for other automation?  clogin uses the 'term
length 0' or 'set length 0' commands to disable the pager.