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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: How to create a "more" batch file?
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 20:42:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.162702.9385@iscsvax.uni.edu> kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
-
- >Here's how to fix it.
- >
- >1) Make sure that your MORE.BAT is ahead of your MORE.COM in your PATH.
- >2) Give your MORE.BAT the full path to MORE.COM.
- >
- >For example:
- >
- >MORE.BAT
- >-----------------------------------
- >C:\DOS\MORE < %1
- >
- >Of course this still wouldn't work of C:\DOS was your current working
- >directory, it would get the MORE.COM before it began searching the path.
- >
- >To combat these problems, it would suffice to create a batch file with a
- >different name than MORE, so there wouldn't be any danger of tripping the
- >MORE.COM or of entering some non-ending recursion in a batch file.
- >
- >If you want a way to type multiple filenames with pauses in-between, let me
- >know and I'll put it together for you. It involves some intentional batch-file
- >recursion and is IMHO, very interesting. It's exposed in the User-to-User
- >column of a recent PC Magazine.
-
- Hmmmm
-
- Could one perhaps rename more.com to nomore.com (9-))? Then
- your more.bat would read:
-
-
- nomore < %1
-
- (with c:\dos on the path of course...)
-
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