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From: CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Where can I find less
Message-ID: <90052.161813CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 90 21:18:13 GMT
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In article <436@vlsi.ll.mit.edu>, malpass@vlsi.ll.mit.edu (Don Malpass) says:
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>In article <3951@rouge.usl.edu> jpd@pc.usl.edu (DugalJP) writes:
>>Less is a neat tool under UNIX, but for MSDOS I would recommend Vernon
>>Buerg's LIST shareware.  It is FANTASTIC and does all that I ask of less.

I heartily agree!  LIST is *superb*!

>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.

No, no!  Use "LIST /S" to pipe from standard input!


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