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Re: anybody know how to "hook" into MORE?

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From: roland
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1989 15:33
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>>the installed applications for your machine. simply pick your favorite text
>>editor as the installed application, and set the application mask to be 
>>what ever document you want to look at: [etc.]

>This method is mainly satisfactory, but suffers from one major drawback:
>the program must load from disk before it runs.  I no longer have anywhere
>near enough memory to keep a ram disk installed, but I do have enough to
>store a TSR that provides a decent 'more' and print utility.  The supplied
>'more' utility runs directly from ROM ... can something in desktop.inf be
>changed to tell it to run some code from a different place?

I can not answer your question, but can propose a possible ( tested! :-)
workaround: 
  you could load the 'more' as an accessory, and install a
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