From:	daproulx AT qc DOT bell DOT ca (Daniel Proulx)
Subject:	RE: Problem with 'more' in 'bash'
16 Dec 1996 13:04:10 -0800 :
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Hi,

You wrote:
Hi,

the Windows95-supplied 'more' command ends with '.com' and it seems
like bash doesn't recognize files ending with '.com' as executable
files. You can do two things

1) rename 'more.com' to 'more.exe' (this works because more.com is
   actually PE format)
2) use the complete filename of 'more.com', for example
   tar tvvfz //i/tmp/win32/b17.1/cdksrc.tgz|more.com

I tried both and it didn't work.  Richard Donkin (from this mailing list)
suggested me to use 'less'.  This is the best solution so far.  He wrote:

Anyway, I suggest you get 'less', which is much more capable than the 
brain-dead Win95 'more', which cannot even page backwards or search - there 
is a direct Win32 port if you want to get something quickly (search for 
less321w.zip), or you can get the less 330 source and compile it for 
Gnu-Win32.

Daniel.

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