-=> on 03-03-05 09:46, JEAN PARROT wrote to JIM HOLSONBACK <=-

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

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

Sacre Bleu!

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

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

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

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

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

In all cases, hit any key to scroll to the next screenful.

- - -  JimH.



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