Brent, You need to modify your BUFFER size on your CMD shell screen. Right click the title bar then select "properties" and find the section that talks about Screen Buffer Size (it's under the "layout" tab for me). This only works for me if I use it in a window (not full screen).
I always create at least a 4 MB buffer by giving myself 1024 characters wide by 2048 tall (2 bytes per character). You can up those values pretty far without running into trouble. (my current settings are 4096w by 2048h, 16MB buffer).Then, if you can use the scroll bar, you will be able to see what scrolled off-screen. (you aren't quite that new, are you... ;-) ) The /P option is not valid for Win32 system. Shawn Green Database Administrator Unimin Corporation - Spruce Pine "OMalley, Brent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/04/2004 05:58:29 PM: > I am a beginner, so forgive me. > > From mysql if I type: > > Mysql>show tables; > > The result scrolls to the last lines and then the prompt again. Is > there an argument or a variable I can set that will act like 'more' or > 'less' in unix? I want it to stop scolling so I can walk through the > results. > > Thanks, > > Brent
