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In article <420u62$5l0$1@sydney.DIALix.oz.au>,  from 30 Aug 1995 15:49:54 
+1000 John Savage at koala@sydney.DIALix.oz.au says...
>

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>>The method indicated by Mike saves several keystrokes, but I find it
>>rather unintuitive. In addition, it is potentially dangerous--if a
>>mistype occurs and the user presses > rather than <, the file will
>>be lost.
>
>Yes, whenever new users ask how to stop a file from disappearing off
>the top of the screen I show them only: TYPE FILENAME | MORE
>
>I'm a bit late coming in on this one, but wish to underscore the point.
>Where the veterans use MORE < FILENAME, in her haste the newbie may fail
>to differentiate one arrow from another (especially if she has not taken
>mathematics to any significant level), and MORE > FILENAME is a shortcut
>to compressing a file to zero bytes!  I find nothing more difficult than
>trying to wriggle out of the accusatory "the command you told me to use
>just deleted everything on my file!", so I cowardly favour the cautious
>approach to glib DOS commands.
>
>--
>John Savage               koala@sydney.dialix.com.au


	But the version  MORE < FILENAME  is much faster, at least
	if you display long files. In the form TYPE FILENAME | MORE
	DOS executes the TYPE and pipes the output to a temoprary file.
	Then the temporary file is fed into MORE. What DOS really does
	is in this case is:
		TYPE FILENAME > tempfile
		MORE < tempfile


		


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