Re: pause page

2000-03-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Beavis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > 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 resp

Re: pause page

2000-03-01 Thread Oki DZ
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Beavis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > 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 may

Re: pause page

2000-02-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Beavis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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 th

Re: pause page

2000-02-29 Thread davidturetsky
man somesubject | more   Press the spacebar when you want the next page. Press q to exit   David - Original Message - From: Beavis To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 8:49 PM Subject: pause page sometimes i try to read the help files

Re: pause page

2000-02-29 Thread Marshal Wong
What command are you using? If you are using something like "cat text.file" try the command "less text.file". Marshal > "Beavis" == Beavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sometimes i try to read the help files, but they come down to > fast >   > how do you pause the scrollin

Re: pause page

2000-02-29 Thread Eric G . Miller
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! $