At 03:48 AM 12/8/99 Dom Latter wrote:
A superior alternative (IMO) to "more" is "less". less allows you to page back up as well as down. (Somebody will probably now tell me how to do it in more). Hit "q" to quit.
Nah, can't do it in more. That's why less was written. It does more than more than more, so it's called less. See, unix geeks understand a bit of humor, even if it humor the rest of us can't <smile>.
> To change permissions, type, for instance, "chmod 755 .htaccess" "chmod" > changes permission. "755" (or whichever number) is the permission. First > digit is the permission of the owner. Second is permission for the group. > Third is permission for the public. Use "man chmod" to learn about the other way of using chmod. (Hit "q" to get out of man).
Why do we hit "q" to get out of man? Because man uses less to display it's pages <smile>.
For "vi", which "more" has a habit of dropping you into while viewing a file, you need to learn how to quit. (Type a colon (:) followed by "q" and that should get you out....)
Or, if you're an old-time DOS or CP/M user, or perhaps more recent Borland tools user, you can use "joe", as I do. It's got modes that run it like the Borland editor, or like the original Wordstar.
Jeff