> Isn't there some way to control the way that > information is spewed out (more than a screenfull) in Most progs that send stuff to stdout (i.e., your screen) can be piped to 'more'. So, in this situation, you'd do 'locate <whatever> | more' and read the output one page at a time. > command line itself. I'm thinking of something like > DOS's /w and /p. IIRC, those switches were only in one program (DIR). Piping to 'more' is a (erm) more general solution. Also, if you have a 'regular' console, ctrl-s and ctrl-q should work. For xterms, if you start them up so that they have a sufficient scroll back buffer (xterm -sb some number) then you can use the scrollbar. > Pete R. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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