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From: campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Version of "more" for VMS
Message-ID: <981@maynard.BSW.COM>
Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 22:56:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: maynard.981
Posted: Thu Aug 20 22:56:42 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 16:12:36 EDT
References: <119@rainy.atmos.washington.edu> <2421@usceast.UUCP>
Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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Keywords: VMS, more

In article <2421@usceast.UUCP> still@usceast.UUCP (Bert Still) writes:
<>In article <119@rainy.atmos.washington.edu> harry@rainy.atmos.washington.edu (Harry Edmon) writes:
<>>Does anyone have a version of Unix "more" running under VMS?
<>
<>	Try "TYPE/PAGE", it will probably do exactly what you want.

Well, no, not exactly.  TYPE/PAGE:

    -	Only goes a screen at a time, can't go a line at a time
    -	Only goes forwards, can't go backwards
    -	Doesn't have any search commands
    -	Has no mechanism for marking a place and returning to it
    -	Has no shell (oops, I mean DCL) escape
    -	Doesn't tell you how far along in the file you are
    -	Can't be used as a filter (OK, this is DCL's fault, not TYPE's,
	but the fact remains I can't pipe my directory listing through it)

etc. etc. etc.
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