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Re: pause page



On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 08:49:11PM -0800, Beavis wrote:
> sometimes i try to read the help files, but they come down to fast
> 
> how do you pause the scrolling text?
> 
> the pause/ break button doesn't seem to respond
> i know this is a dumb question, but maybe somebody will get a good laugh!

$ <command> -h | less

That is, pipe the output of the command help to the pager less. You can
also use the pager more if you don't have less (oh, and there's most as
well!).

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