ramon@skye.mit.edu (Ramon F Herrera) (11/18/90)
Is there any way to use 'more' from within the mail program to see long messages one page at a time?? The scrolling speeds these days are exceeding the reflexes needed to press ^S ans ^Q. Ramon Herrera -- Ramon F. Herrera Research Laboratory of Electronics Massachusetts Institute of Technology ramon@iona.mit.edu
gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) (11/18/90)
In article <1990Nov17.190806.15414@athena.mit.edu> ramon@skye.mit.edu (Ramon F Herrera) writes: >Is there any way to use 'more' from within the mail program >to see long messages one page at a time?? Most mail-reading interfaces that I'm familiar with support a command that sends the message to a user-specified command or pipe. I use this to spool the message to a printer and to pipe it through a paginator when it's scrolling too fast to read otherwise. Some mail-reading interfaces have an option (usually specified in a file such as .mailrc in your home directory) that enables pagination by the mail-reading interface itself. Check your manual..
ifas730@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (11/18/90)
In article <1990Nov17.190806.15414@athena.mit.edu> ramon@skye.mit.edu (Ramon F Herrera) writes: >Is there any way to use 'more' from within the mail program >to see long messages one page at a time?? > >The scrolling speeds these days are exceeding the reflexes >needed to press ^S ans ^Q. On a BSD machine, mail has a more subcommand. Just type 'more #', where # is the message number. I don't know if the mail program on a SysV machine has the more subcommand, so another solution is to create a .mailrc file in your home directory with the following two lines: set crt=24 set PAGER=pg On a BSD machine, set PAGER to more. This will allow you to use the print or type subcommands for long messages. Crt determines how long the message must be before the PAGER is used. I hope this helps. Kathy
seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) (11/19/90)
In article <1990Nov17.190806.15414@athena.mit.edu> ramon@skye.mit.edu (Ramon F Herrera) writes: >Is there any way to use 'more' from within the mail program >to see long messages one page at a time?? System Vish mail programs (mailx, in particular 8-)) need to have two variables set. One is crt; if that is set, then a pager ($PAGER, pg by default, I believe) is used. (PAGER is the other variable, sorry to be a bit confusing...) -- -----------------+ Sean Eric Fagan | "*Never* knock on Death's door: ring the bell and seanf@sco.COM | run away! Death hates that!" uunet!sco!seanf | -- Dr. Mike Stratford (Matt Frewer, "Doctor, Doctor") (408) 458-1422 | Any opinions expressed are my own, not my employers'.