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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Using a pager from within 'mail'
Keywords: more, mail, pager, scroll
Message-ID: <14519@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 17 Nov 90 21:15:39 GMT
References: <1990Nov17.190806.15414@athena.mit.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1990Nov17.190806.15414@athena.mit.edu> ramon@skye.mit.edu (Ramon F Herrera) writes:
>Is there any way to use 'more' from within the mail program
>to see long messages one page at a time??

Most mail-reading interfaces that I'm familiar with support a command
that sends the message to a user-specified command or pipe.  I use this
to spool the message to a printer and to pipe it through a paginator
when it's scrolling too fast to read otherwise.

Some mail-reading interfaces have an option (usually specified in a file
such as .mailrc in your home directory) that enables pagination by the
mail-reading interface itself.  Check your manual..