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From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
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Subject: Re: Using a pager from within 'mail'
Keywords: more, mail, pager, scroll
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Date: 19 Nov 90 07:26:01 GMT
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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??

System Vish mail programs (mailx, in particular 8-)) need to have two
variables set.  One is crt; if that is set, then a pager ($PAGER, pg by
default, I believe) is used.  (PAGER is the other variable, sorry to be a
bit confusing...)

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