mikea@utoday.UUCP (mikea) (07/25/88)
I am using the latest version of XENIX System V and I'm having a problem: I can't figure out how to scroll up and down while I'm reading a piece of mail! So, if the mail is longer than one screen, I can never see the top unless I print it. I know I'm probably just being stupid, i.e., missing something incredibly obvious, but that's that. If anyone can help, I appreciate it. l
daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond) (07/25/88)
In article <17@utoday.UUCP> mikea@utoday.UUCP (mikea) writes: > > I am using the latest version of XENIX System V and I'm having > a problem: I can't figure out how to scroll up and down > while I'm reading a piece of mail! So, if the mail is > longer than one screen, I can never see the top unless I > print it. I know I'm probably just being stupid, i.e., > missing something incredibly obvious, but that's that. > If anyone can help, I appreciate it. To stop the vanilla "mail" or "mailx" commands from scrolling a message off the screen, issue the command set page=22 either in your .mailrc file or at the beginning of each mail session. BTW, if you're not sure of how to setup a .mailrc file, see the XENIX User Reference manual pages for "mail". Any of the "set" options may be placed in a .mailrc file. Dave Hammond UUCP: !{uunet|rutgers|spl1|...}!hombre!{marob|dsix2}!daveh ---------------------------------------------------------------
barry@n0atp.UUCP (Barry S. Berg) (07/25/88)
In article <17@utoday.UUCP> mikea@utoday.UUCP (mikea) writes: > > I am using the latest version of XENIX System V and I'm having > a problem: I can't figure out how to scroll up and down > while I'm reading a piece of mail! So, if the mail is > longer than one screen, I can never see the top unless I > print it. I know I'm probably just being stupid, i.e., > missing something incredibly obvious, but that's that. > If anyone can help, I appreciate it. > l **** RTFM!! **** If you bothered to read the man entry of mail, or the *manual* you would find your entry under *set page*. This may be put in your .mailrc file. Actually get a copy of elm or mush, or even mailbbs, as SCO's version of mail is terrible. P.S. Please post a follow-up and distribution line to your posting. It does make life simpler. Since it is by default world, and you asked the question world wide, I left it that way. -- Barry S. Berg DOMAIN: barry@n0atp.N0ATP.MN.ORG N0ATP Packet Radio Gateway UUCP: {...}amdahl!bungia!n0atp!barry "Speech is civilization itself--it is silence which isolates." --Thomas Mann "Moderation in all things, most especially moderation." --Author as yet unknown.