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From: tmb@netcom3.netcom.com (Thomas Breuel)
Subject: Re: Dumb Command Names (was Re: Retro-Computing!)
In-Reply-To: michaelg@Xenon.Stanford.EDU's message of 13 Apr 95 08:33:47 GMT
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| >>cat (or dd) is definitely a great way to display a file.  More (or
| >>less) is pretty useless as it leaves annoying little control-G's,
| >>control-M's, spaces, and q's (and even warning messages) all over the
| >>shell buffer.


It's pretty silly to use "more" inside a shell buffer to display
files.  Either type "^X^F", "^X^R", or use emacsclient.  Note that the
shell buffer keeps track of the current working directory of the
shell, so typing "^X^F" means that you can give a pathname relative to
the directory that you are in.

			Thomas.
