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Hello Jim - 

JH>> MORE, so I can read long directories and readme files
JH>> without them scrolling off the screen. 

JP>> I have forgotten this CLI, Jim. Can you kindly remind me ? 

JH> Sacre Bleu! 

JH> Sure. Filename is MORE.COM. In Win98xx it is about 10KB in
JH> length. 

My version, written by me in asm, is 866 bytes. :-) 

JH> To see a large directory one screenful at a time, the
JH> command is dir  |more 

JH> This is also useful for finding "lost sheep" files. Say you
JH> think you have a pdf file of some manual or other document
JH> somewhere on your HDD, and you don't want to spend half
JH> your morning mousing around, you can look at all the pdf
JH> files on the whole HDD with one command - 

C:>> dir *.pdf /s|more 

JH> The /s switch tells it to look into all the directories and
JH> subdirectories. When you have as many pdf files on HDD as I
JH> have, there are way too many of them to show on one
JH> screenful. 

JH> For a long readme, autoexec.bat, config.sys, textfile,
JH> *.inf file, etc. one screenful at a time the command is
JH> type  |more 

Why not just "more < drv:\path\filename.ext"? 

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