From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 3 17:35:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www6.web2010.com (www6.web2010.com [216.157.5.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8560937B403 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 17:35:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from marty.face2interface.com (marty.ulster.net [216.238.72.249]) by www6.web2010.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA12627; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 20:35:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020603202534.00a373b0@mail.face2interface.com> X-Sender: face@mail.face2interface.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 20:32:52 -0400 To: Lawrence Mayer dsg , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Marty Landman Subject: Re: How to scroll through several screens of text ? In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 02:15 AM 6/4/02 +0200, Lawrence Mayer dsg wrote: >When the screen output is finished, I hit "scroll lock" and use the arrow >keys to go >backward and read text that scrolled off screen. > >The problem with this method is that the screen output is often larger >than the screen buffer, in which case I can't scroll back far enough to >see the beginning Hi Lawrence. If you want to control output from a command so you can read it all then pipe it through the 'more' command, e.g. 'ls |more'. Only the first screen's worth of output will appear and by using the enter key you get one additional line at a time, by using the space bar you'll get a full screen's worth at a time. man more |more hth, Marty -- SIMPL WebSite Creation: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message