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Date:	Tue, 18 Mar 2003 19:29:16 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: scroll-search command line utility ?

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In <3E779D58.73F3@peterskye.com>, on 03/18/03
at 02:27 PM, Peter Skye said:

> scrlsrch SkyePhoneNumbers.txt

>would open the SkyePhoneNumbers.txt file and allow me to scroll through
>it, and typing

> scrlsrch SkyePhoneNumbers.txt attorney

>would open the file and automatically scroll to the first occurrence of
>"attorney".

There's literally dozens of choices.

I use less when I need really capable searching and browsing.

I use 4os2's built-in list utility for some tasks.

Finally I still have Vernon D. Buerg's list.exe (the OS/2 version)
embedded in some scripts and aliased as the more command.

Steven

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