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From: jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Jason Merrill)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Where can I find less
Message-ID: <4538@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 21 Feb 90 20:59:04 GMT
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In article <436@vlsi.ll.mit.edu> malpass@ll-vlsi.arpa.UUCP (Don Malpass) writes:
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I recall, when I originally tried LIST
>I was favorably impressed, but found that it couldn't be used as a pipe
>- had to give it a file name.  Am I correct about that?  If not, I'll
>find it and try it again.

List can be used as a pipe...you just have to hunt around in the docs a
bit.  My autoexec contains the line "alias more c:\util\list.com /s",
replacing DOS' brain-damaged MORE command.  I assume the /s switch stands
for "read from Stdin" or some such.

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Jason Merrill				jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu