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Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 17:26:37 -0700
From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.com>
To: Lawrence Mayer dsg <Lawrence.Mayer@dsg.ki.se>
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Subject: Re: How to scroll through several screens of text ?
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On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 02:15:37 +0200 (MET DST)
Lawrence Mayer dsg <Lawrence.Mayer@dsg.ki.se> wrote:

> 1. Is there a way to make FreeBSD output no more than n lines to the
> screen at a time, and wait for a "return" before outputing the next n
> lines to the screen? (That way, I could adjust n to be slightly less
> than the number of lines on my screen and could read each screen at my
> leisure instead of having them fly past much too fast too read.)
> 
> 2. What if I'm using a terminal emulator like xterm or rxvt? Any way
> to do(1) above?
> 
> 3. Is there any way to increase the size of FreeBSD's screen buffer?
> 
> 4. If so, will this method work if I'm using a terminal emulator like
> xterm or rxvt?

You can "pipe" the output of these commands to a pager such as "more" or
"less".  So, `ls | less` would allow you to scroll around in the results
of ls using a utility called "less"  As for rxvt, you could start it
with some switches such as `rxvt -sb -sr -sl 200`.  See man rxvt to see
what each of these switches does, but this command should suit your
needs (possibly more) for rxvt.

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