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From: jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Paging wide ( > 80 char/line) files
Message-ID: <298@kl-cs.UUCP>
Date: 3 Nov 88 19:07:51 GMT
References: <585@wc11.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Organization: U. of Keele, Staffs. U.K.
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From article <585@wc11.idca.tds.philips.nl>, by ekkel@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Erik Ekkel):
> My Informix 4GL application generates reports with more then 80 char/line.
> Does somebody know a paging mechanism to show this reports on a normal
> screen ???  I would like to use some horizontal scrolling features.
> 
> p.s. the standard SysV pager "pg" does cut the lines, but this user interface
>      is what i prefer (also reading from stdin !)

I too had trouble with an 80 char screen when I wanted one much wider.  As
I was using a VT100 I could use the 132 column feature.  I have a shell
script which tries to find a wider terminal definition in the termcap
database and if successful will switch a terminal to the wider version
and execute a command.  Ideal for using vi on long lined programs, or
'more' for wide listings.
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