I am aware of the difference.

However, in this implementation, cat also pages.

Try it for yourself.

a pager not connected to a terminal is a cat program by identity. If you configured an infinitely tall terminal, pager acts like cat.

I really want to pull rank and tell you how deeply involved I am in the Unix community. Nevertheless, suffice it to say I know that, and the mistake you are making is this is NOT Unix. It's just a poorly written text parser that simulates a Unix command line.

I'm not sure what pulling rank would achieve here, you're talking to somebody who ran a datacenter in the same room as CSRG ran their BSD boxes (but 20 years later).

I completely and totally understood that this was not a real UNIX system.

Perhaps I mistook your message for hostile. :-)