Re: scrolls too fast

1999-10-20 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
If it's not too long, you can just run the program, then use Shift-PgUp to backtrack the screen. Or use the program | less, such as: ls -lR | less On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 12:29:46AM -0600, jh wrote: > Hi. At the command line, how do I keep a message from scrolling so fast and > missing it? So

Re: scrolls too fast

1999-10-17 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, I also posted a reply to your CDROM problem, to get you a little further, but it has not shown up yet. Anyway use the "more" command followed by the file name. This will not help you with "dmesg" though, unless you output it to a file, or pipe the output directly to "more"... more foo.txt

Re: scrolls too fast

1999-10-17 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 17 Oct, jh wrote about "scrolls too fast" > Hi. At the command line, how do I keep a message from scrolling so fast and > missing it? Something like dos "/p"? > | less or | more or | most less, more & most are all called pagers. More is part of the base system so it should already b