Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 15:24:37 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Lovecraft <lovecraft AT aol DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: The DJGPP Oracle
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On 13 Aug 1997, Lovecraft wrote:

..
> >Furthermore, how long does it take to find the answer to a question in
> the
> >DJGPP FAQ?  It takes me about ten seconds. 
> 
> Well, I'm very slow.
> 
> > In the late 1990s there are
> >inventions called grep, 
> 
> Is there a FAQ on that , too?
..

I am not sure if GNU Less comes with the DJGPP binutils (I'm using the
Linux to DOS cross-compiler). But it's VERY GOOD for reading the
text-version FAQ. It's something like DOS' MORE command except you can
page back and forth in the file, and search.

For example, to find the word `getvect' you just type a slash `/' followed
by `getvect' then ENTER. This finds the first occurrence. Type a `/' and
ENTER again to find the next occurrence. And so forth. Personally, I use
Less for almost all my document-reading needs under UNIX (even though I
have `man' `tkman' and `glimpse' among others for reading documentation).

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