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miken@hcr.UUCP (Mike Nemeth) writes:
>
> i am not enamoured of the "more" command. i have my own version that
> is more to my liking (ie. i can search forward/backward, back up a
> page, choose another file, ...). does anybody know of a way to call
> a user defined piece of code instead of the routine that gets called
> when i doubleclick on a file and choose "show"?

I enclose details of how to do this originally posted by Moshe Braner
when he posted his version of more some years ago:

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Submitted-by: braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Moshe Braner)
Posting-number: Volume 1, Issue 41
Archive-name: more

To judge from mail I've been getting, it is time for a repost of MORE.TTP.
This is a little utility to print text files to the screen or a printer.
See the doc file, or invoke MORE with an empty command line for brief help.
I have replaced the desktop "SHOW/PRINT" thing (ugh!) so that when
I double-click on a document it is shown via MORE.  To do that I
modified the desktop.inf file.  The last lines of it now say:

...
#T 00 07 02 FF   BLACK HOLE@ @
#F FF 04   C:\BIN\MORE.TTP@ *.*@
#D FF 01   @ *.*@ 
#G 03 FF   *.APP@ @ 
#G 03 FF   *.PRG@ @
#F 03 04   *.TOS@ @
#P 03 04   *.TTP@ @ 

Works like a charm.  I just wish MORE would work from inside the Laser C
shell -- I don't know why it does not.
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Maybe Mike should consider submitting his version of more to the
binaries/sources group. I like and use Moshe's version but it only
allows one file to be inspected per invocation. Another alternative is
less but the ST version doesn't expand wildcards (and neither does
TOS) which is frustrating.
-- 
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