Rhino wrote:

Ultimately simple, but I don't find the answer:  how to stop a list from
scrolling to the bottom when the command SHOW TABLES is entered.

I was wondering that myself so I took a look in the manual and found
something promising: pager. See
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysql_Commands.html


> mysql -p [database] Enter password: mysql> pager more; PAGER set to more mysql> select * from [table]; ...data... ...data... --More--

   You can use 'less', or 'more', or whatever other pager you want to use.


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