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Date:	Tue, 18 Mar 2003 20:52:04 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: scroll-search command line utility ?

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Steve Carter wrote:
>
> Vern Buerg once made LIST for OS/2. I loved LIST for DOS

Steven Levine wrote:
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> I still have Vernon D. Buerg's list.exe (the OS/2 version)
> embedded in some scripts and aliased as the more command.

I found a January 1995 version of Buerg's list.exe on Hobbes
(http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/browser/list75h.zip). Is that the
version you have, or is there a more recent one? The 1995 list
(listos2.exe) unfortunately doesn't support long filenames. It's a nice
program for 8.3 partitions.

Who is Vernon Buerg? Both of you seem to know who he is but I've never
heard of him.

Steven Levine continued:
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> I use less when I need really
> capable searching and browsing.

I installed less a few months ago
(http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/file/less-370.zip) but *heavens to
mergatroid* the documentation is a bit daunting. I mean, the help
screen is 10 pages long. And the documentation (*.man) files need a
"man reader" which I haven't found yet. And there's a key binding file
(apparently a control file which maps keyboard keys to control
functions) which I haven't reviewed yet. I was sort of hoping for a
Pop-Tart and this thing is a French Chef Cooking Class.

Steven, less can be the subject of your next Mr. Know It All column.
:))

Thanks, guys.

- Peter

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