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From: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: help: re "piping" bar
Message-ID: <7899@cg-atla.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 89 16:21:56 GMT
References: <25597eae34e@vms.huji.ac.il>
Reply-To: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Organization: Agfa Compugraphic Division
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In article <25597eae34e@vms.huji.ac.il> GERALD%vms.huji.ac.il@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes:
>I am trying to use the "more" command on my PC-XT to flip through a long
>document one page at a time.  My book says I need a bar to "pipe" the
>commands Ie, TYPE FILENAME <BAR> MORE.
>tHE PROBLEM IS THAT I DON'T HAVE A "BAR" ON MY KEYBOARD.
>ANY SOLUTIONS FOR A AMATEUR LIKE ME (PLEAS SEND RESPONSES DIRECTLY TO ME RATHER
>THAN ON THE NET.
>tHANKS


I don't know how to do a pipe on your system, since I don't know which key
represents the pipe symbol. HOWEVER, for what you describe you DO NOT NEED
to use a pipe. Simply try this:

    MORE < FILENAME.EXT

Which tells the standard DOS more program to read stdin, which has been
redirected (by DOS) to represent the file named FILENAME.EXT.

Fred