on Fri, 7 Jun
2002 06:59:13 PST7
As a suggestion, I use the port of the Unix "LESS" utility for paging in OS/2.
It's a much better paging utility than "MORE". I only use 1/10th of its
capabilities but its worth it since it allows to move both back and forth, do
find/pattern matching and lots of other things. It won't have one executable
for both DOS and OS/2 as OS/2's "MORE" does but I think there is a DOS version
around somewhere. Here is just the first page of the help screen (probably best
viewed in a monospace font) accessible by typing the letter 'h' while in "LESS".
Otherwise, use it as you would "MORE" (i.e. "type filename.txt | less").
SUMMARY OF LESS COMMANDS
Commands marked with * may be preceded by a number, N.
Notes in parentheses indicate the behavior if N is given.
h H Display this help.
q :q Q :Q ZZ Exit.
e ^E j ^N CR * Forward one line (or N lines).
y ^Y k ^K ^P * Backward one line (or N lines).
f ^F ^V SPACE * Forward one window (or N lines).
b ^B ESC-v * Backward one window (or N lines).
z * Forward one window (and set window to N).
w * Backward one window (and set window to N).
ESC-SPACE * Forward one window, but don't stop at end-of-file.
d ^D * Forward one half-window (and set half-window to N).
u ^U * Backward one half-window (and set half-window to N).
ESC-( RightArrow * Left 8 character positions (or N positions).
ESC-) LeftArrow * Right 8 character positions (or N positions).
F Forward forever; like "tail -f".
r ^R ^L Repaint screen.
R Repaint screen, discarding buffered input.
---------------------------------------------------
-Rocky
> DOS MORE will execute properly from a and OS/2 DOS window if the command
> invoking it is run from MORE.COM's native directory e.g.
> C:\DOS\DIR | MORE completes normally.
>
> Jeffrey Race
>
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 00:42:54 PST7, Peter Skye wrote:
>
> >
> >> What is an 'OS/2 MORE filter'?
> >
> >\OS2\MORE.COM
> >
> >\OS2\ is where a lot of the OS/2 utilities are kept.
> >
> >MORE.COM stops scrolling the command line window when the screen is full
> >(I think you know that). HELP MORE for more info (I think you know that
> >too).
> >
> >- Peter
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