From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 16:10:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 93EAB37B491 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:10:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 33832 invoked by uid 100); 16 Feb 2001 00:10:12 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14988.28644.607537.701008@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 18:10:12 -0600 To: "Jim McIver" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pg command In-Reply-To: <121992608@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim McIver types: > Yes, I'm a newbe to FreeBSD(only took 3 days to get it installed). > > On my current SCO and AIX boxes I've grown accustom to just typing > "pg filename" to open a file for just reading, scrolling up and down, > searching, etc... without editing or changing the file. I find it more > user friendly than the "more" or "less" command. ( and two less > chacters to type without making an alias) > > Is the "pg" command available for FreeBSD 4.2? The ports are your friends. Install /usr/ports/misc/pg. If you're not sure how to install ports, see the FreeBSD handbook. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message