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From: ziegast@ENG.UMD.EDU (Eric Ziegast)
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Subject: Re: paging scan output
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Date: 12 Jan 91 16:00:34 GMT
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Edward Levinson writes:
>I'd like scan's output to be paged.  Can this be done through a switch or
>must I pipe scan's output through more?  Can I set up something in 
>.mh_profile?

There are no switches or profile entries in the man page.  I haven't heard
of anything like what you want already intalled in mh.

You could always use a csh alias:

	alias scan 'scan \!* | more'

or even better, many people usually have their own personal bin directory
(ex. ~/bin).  If that is placed near or at the beginning of their PATH,
they can put all changes to their commands in that directory so that they
will be recognized first.  In ~/bin/scan, one can put

	#!/bin/sh
	/usr/local/mh/bin/scan $* | more

This seems more like a feature than anything else.  If users want to use
more on their scan output they can do what they want to make it work
that way.  I wouldn't impose a 'more' feature on any of my MH users.
________________________________________________________________________
Eric W. Ziegast, University of Merryland, Engineering Computing Services
ziegast@eng.umd.edu - Eric@(301.405.3689)