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Re: How to create a "more" batch file?

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From: Iskandar Taib
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 20:42
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In article <1992Dec14.162702.9385@iscsvax.uni.edu> kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:

>Here's how to fix it.
>
>1)  Make sure that your MORE.BAT is ahead of your MORE.COM in your PATH.
>2)  Give your MORE.BAT the full path to MORE.COM.
>
>For example:
>
>MORE.BAT
>-----------------------------------
>C:\DOS\MORE < %1
>
>Of course this still wouldn't work of C:\DOS was your current working
>directory, it would get the MORE.COM before it began searching the path.
>
>To combat these problems, it would suffice to create a batch file with a
>different name than MORE, so there wouldn't be any danger of tripping the
>MORE.COM or of entering some non-ending recursion in a batch file.
>
>If you want a way to type multiple filenames with pauses in-between, let me
>know and I'll put it together for you.  It involves some intentional batch-file
>recursion and is IMHO, very interesting.  It's exposed in the User-to-User
>column of a recent PC Magazine.

Hmmmm

Could one perhaps rename more.com to nomore.com (9-))? Then 
your more.bat would read:


nomore < %1

(with c:\dos on the path of course...)




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