Re: pause page

2000-03-01 Thread Oki DZ
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, David Wright wrote: Quoting Beavis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): sometimes i try to read the help files, but they come down to fast how do you pause the scrolling text? the pause/ break button doesn't seem to respond i know this is a dumb question, but maybe somebody

Re: pause page

2000-03-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, David Wright wrote: Quoting Beavis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): sometimes i try to read the help files, but they come down to fast how do you pause the scrolling text? the pause/ break button doesn't seem to respond i know

pause page

2000-02-29 Thread Beavis
sometimes i try to read the help files, but they come down to fast how do you pause the scrolling text? the pause/ break button doesn't seem to respond i know this is a dumb question, but maybe somebody will get a good laugh!

Re: pause page

2000-02-29 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 08:49:11PM -0800, Beavis wrote: sometimes i try to read the help files, but they come down to fast how do you pause the scrolling text? the pause/ break button doesn't seem to respond i know this is a dumb question, but maybe somebody will get a good laugh! $

Re: pause page

2000-02-29 Thread Marshal Wong
What command are you using? If you are using something like cat text.file try the command less text.file. Marshal Beavis == Beavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sometimes i try to read the help files, but they come down to fast   how do you pause the scrolling text?  

Re: pause page

2000-02-29 Thread davidturetsky
man somesubject | more Press the spacebar when you want the next page. Press q to exit David - Original Message - From: Beavis To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 8:49 PM Subject: pause page sometimes i try to read the help files

Re: pause page

2000-02-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Beavis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): sometimes i try to read the help files, but they come down to fast how do you pause the scrolling text? the pause/ break button doesn't seem to respond i know this is a dumb question, but maybe somebody will get a good laugh! To save remembering the