GERALD@vms.Huji.AC.IL (11/09/89)
I am trying to use the "more" command on my PC-XT to flip through a long document one page at a time. My book says I need a bar to "pipe" the commands Ie, TYPE FILENAME <BAR> MORE. tHE PROBLEM IS THAT I DON'T HAVE A "BAR" ON MY KEYBOARD. ANY SOLUTIONS FOR A AMATEUR LIKE ME (PLEAS SEND RESPONSES DIRECTLY TO ME RATHER THAN ON THE NET. tHANKS
fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith) (11/10/89)
In article <25597eae34e@vms.huji.ac.il> GERALD%vms.huji.ac.il@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes: >I am trying to use the "more" command on my PC-XT to flip through a long >document one page at a time. My book says I need a bar to "pipe" the >commands Ie, TYPE FILENAME <BAR> MORE. >tHE PROBLEM IS THAT I DON'T HAVE A "BAR" ON MY KEYBOARD. >ANY SOLUTIONS FOR A AMATEUR LIKE ME (PLEAS SEND RESPONSES DIRECTLY TO ME RATHER >THAN ON THE NET. >tHANKS I don't know how to do a pipe on your system, since I don't know which key represents the pipe symbol. HOWEVER, for what you describe you DO NOT NEED to use a pipe. Simply try this: MORE < FILENAME.EXT Which tells the standard DOS more program to read stdin, which has been redirected (by DOS) to represent the file named FILENAME.EXT. Fred
steve@ucsd.Edu ({Darkavich}) (11/10/89)
In article <25597eae34e@vms.huji.ac.il> GERALD%vms.huji.ac.il@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes: >I am trying to use the "more" command on my PC-XT to flip through a long >document one page at a time. My book says I need a bar to "pipe" the >commands Ie, TYPE FILENAME <BAR> MORE. >tHE PROBLEM IS THAT I DON'T HAVE A "BAR" ON MY KEYBOARD. >ANY SOLUTIONS FOR A AMATEUR LIKE ME (PLEAS SEND RESPONSES DIRECTLY TO ME RATHER >THAN ON THE NET. >tHANKS Another way you can use more is to say more < filename this command is just a page stopper. It does not have any of the features like the UNXI version. Steve smisrack@ucsd.edu
poffen@chomolungma (Russ Poffenberger) (11/13/89)
In article <25597eae34e@vms.huji.ac.il> GERALD%vms.huji.ac.il@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes: >I am trying to use the "more" command on my PC-XT to flip through a long >document one page at a time. My book says I need a bar to "pipe" the >commands Ie, TYPE FILENAME <BAR> MORE. >tHE PROBLEM IS THAT I DON'T HAVE A "BAR" ON MY KEYBOARD. >ANY SOLUTIONS FOR A AMATEUR LIKE ME (PLEAS SEND RESPONSES DIRECTLY TO ME RATHER >THAN ON THE NET. >tHANKS HUH? Where did you get your PC? Is it a true IBM? Even so, I have never heard of a clone without one. (Or virtually ANY keyboard for that matter) Look on the '\' ket, should be a shift of this key. If not, for some strange reason, try using the ascii code by holding down the 'alt' key and typing (on the numeric keypad) the ascii decimal code for that key (124) and then releasing the alt key. Now if you don't have an 'alt' key either, you are SOL. Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254 ------------------------- In a dictatorship, people suffer without complaining. In a democracy, people complain without suffering.