In a message dated 3/26/99 10:14:31 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> When I do an "ls -l" in a directory such as /etc, it > lists down about 300 entries but I can only go back and see > about 150 of them because of my limited "buffer size" > or whatever that might be called ! > > Question : What is the variable that controls this, and how > can I change that? This doesn't answer your question, but another option would be to pipe output to the less or more command: ls -l | more ls -l | less