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From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: scrolling help request
Message-ID: <338@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: 25 Jul 88 12:13:03 GMT
References: <17@utoday.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveh@marob.UUCP (Dave Hammond)
Organization: 18th Street Construction Company (ESCC). NY, NY
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In article <17@utoday.UUCP> mikea@utoday.UUCP (mikea) writes:
>
>	I am using the latest version of XENIX System V and I'm having
>	a problem: I can't figure out how to scroll up and down
>	while I'm reading a piece of mail! So, if the mail is
>	longer than one screen, I can never see the top unless I
>	print it. I know I'm probably just being stupid, i.e., 
>	missing something incredibly obvious, but that's that.
>	If anyone can help, I appreciate it.

To stop the vanilla "mail" or "mailx" commands from scrolling a message
off the screen, issue the command

set page=22

either in your .mailrc file or at the beginning of each mail session.
BTW, if you're not sure of how to setup a .mailrc file, see the XENIX
User Reference manual pages for "mail". Any of the "set" options may be
placed in a .mailrc file.

Dave Hammond
UUCP:   !{uunet|rutgers|spl1|...}!hombre!{marob|dsix2}!daveh
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