Using less to view output

Marc Brumlik marcbrumlik at hotmail.com
Sun May 15 07:28:18 PDT 2005


Bob Stockler wrote:

>Robert T. Repko (R Squared Consultants) wrote (on Sat, May 14, 2005 at 11:14:05PM -0400):
>
>| Believe it or not at 5/14/2005 12:36 PM, Bob Stockler said:
>| >
>| >Wouldn't:
>| >
>| >  printer27=ViaFile,nocodes,| less,View report
>| >
>| >work, and be simpler?
>| 
>| That was the first thing I tried, it's defined earlier in the config 
>| file.  That does not work either, less never displays the data.
>
>It works for me and works for Radley and maybe some others?
>Anyone else?
>
>Bob
>
>  
>
As a test, write it to a file first. 
          >/tmp/$$; less /tmp/$$      [and maybe  ; rm /tmp/$$]

Marc


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