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From: DAVIDLI@SIMVAX.BITNET (David Meile)
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Subject: Re: Version of "more" for VMS
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Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 11:25:00 EDT
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>Larry Campbell <maynard!campbell@husc6.harvard.EDU>
>>(Harry Edmon) writes:
>>Does anyone have a version of Unix "more" running under VMS?

>    -    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)


Larry Campbell was responding to the suggestion that TYPE/PAGE might be
what Harry Edmon wants.  He then goes on to list features that TYPE/PAGE
does not have.  I agree with Larry about TYPE/PAGE, but I think that there
*is* a utility that comes close.

It is called LIST, and was made available on the Fall '86 DECUS tapes by
Mark Vevle of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (who I assume is also
the author).

LIST is a TPU section file, with the following features:

        - multiple windows (so you can compare files)
        - "search" capabilities
        - can spawn a subprocess (or do one DCL command ...)
        - uses many of the editing features associated with TPU editors
        - can "cut" text and put it into another file
        - won't change the LISTed file
        - can scroll horizontally (for those lines longer than 132 columns)

All in all, a very useful program.  It is not quite "more", but is more
useful in a VMS environment that I have found "more" to be.  It requires
TPU - which means you have to have VMS 4.2 or later.  I have it set up for
system-wide use as a foreign command:
        LIST :== EDIT/TPU/SECTION=LISTSECINI.TPU$SECTION

Hope you find this information of use.  Like I said, it is on the Fall '86
DECUS VAX SIG tape [VAX86C.UAB.LIST...]

-- Dave Meile, systems manager                  davidli@simvax.bitnet