Re: pause page
Quoting Beavis (beavis@bidz.com):
> 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!
To save remembering the other answers, try putting any or all of these
in .bashrc, but specifically the last:
export LESS="-iqsM"
eval $(lesspipe)
export LESSCHARSET=latin1
export MANOPT="-P /usr/bin/less"
For situations where you don't want to use pipes, you can of course
use ^S and ^Q to stop and restart any output. If only your finger had
slipped off the Pause/Break key, you might have discovered that
ScrollLock toggles ^S ^Q in VCs.
Pause is a DOSism and has horrible effects there: the screen often
stops in a partially updated state with missing or duplicated lines,
the CPU stops working on the task in hand even if no output is being
generated. Obviously it would be an inappropriate way of doing things
in a multitasking OS.
Cheers,
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