From: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk (Richard Donkin) Subject: Re: Problem with 'more' in 'bash' 13 Dec 1996 09:26:50 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Reply-To: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk Original-To: daproulx@qc.bell.ca, gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Cc: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <01BBE86E.665F7880@rolc52.QC.Bell.CA> > Hi, > > The 'more' command supplied with Windows95 doesn't work in 'bash': > > example: > ls -l | more > bash.exe: more: command not found > > ls -l | more.com > more.com: /WINDOWS/COMMAND/more.com: cannot execute binary file > > which more > more: > c:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\more.COM > > ls -l | more.COM > more.COM: /WINDOWS/COMMAND/more.COM: cannot execute binary file > > 'more' is definetely in the 'PATH'. > > I think I would need a .exe version of more. Does it exist? Is it the > problem? There is a problem in executing certain DOS .COM commands under bash on Win95. For example, edit.com and command.com work OK, but sys.com and more.com do not. This is hardly worth worrying about as you can always do: ls -l | command.com /c more.com (Note that 'command' without the .com is a bash builtin.) Although this works it is useless because more.com does not understand that \n should become \r\n on output. Anyway, I suggest you get 'less', which is much more capable than the brain-dead Win95 'more', which cannot even page backwards or search - there is a direct Win32 port if you want to get something quickly (search for less321w.zip), or you can get the less 330 source and compile it for Gnu-Win32. While we are talking about this horrible Win95 stuff - I have some shell functions that make it easier to run DOS commands, open Windows documents, and start the Windows Explorer at a particular (Unix-format) directory pathname. Handy if you don't have X installed and/or need to use Windows stuff alongside bash. The latter includes the equivalent of cdable_vars in bash, so you can just say 'exp l' to open up Explorer at $l (/usr/local for me). Anyone who wants a copy can email me, I don't want to post them to the list. I also have a couple of Perl scripts that monitor the uptime of a Win32 system and calculate the MTBF. Since Nov 30, this Win95 system has had an MTBF of just 11 hours - some of the reboots are planned, but most are due to crashes, and this includes idle time overnight. Sad but true... Richard -- richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk http://www.inside-edge.co.uk/ Inside Edge Consultancy Client/Server and Internet Applications PGP key from: pgp-public-keys@keys.pgp.net -or- http://www.four11.com/ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".