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- From: bvaughan@sheps.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan)
- Subject: Re: Elm and "more"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.173237.20352@Princeton.EDU>
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- References: <1992Dec25.021843.24341@informix.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:32:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec25.021843.24341@informix.com> billd@informix.com (William Daul) writes:
- >Outside of ELM (using a Unix system) when I type "more foo-file" and the end
- >of the page I get a percentage of the file remaining to be displayed. When
- >I am in ELM and looking at a message, I DON'T get this percentage left. How
- >can I get ELM to display the percentage?
-
- elm pipes the letter to more and more can't compute the percentage when
- the input is from a pipe, because it doesn't know the size until it's
- reached the end. I use less for viewing my mail; less also can't compute
- the percentage, but I've modified the less display to at least show me
- what line number I'm on. If I check out the total number of lines before
- viewing the letter, this gives a mental estimate of the percentage.
-
- barbara Vaughan
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