From:	"Luke Bishop" <lbishop AT calvin DOT stemnet DOT nf DOT ca>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: DOS with scrollback?
Date:	18 Apr 1998 22:29:39 GMT
Organization:	The Zone
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> I've been looking for something equivalent to the Win95 MS-DOS prompt
> that has a scrollback buffer. I was overjoyed when I found djgpp, but
> if I get more than a page of errors, it's more-or-less useless. =:)
> 
> Can anybody reccomend something? Replies via email would be
> appreciated since I don't have time to check NGs all the time. Thanks
> in advance,

Simple enough.  GNU Less works very well.  
Just use 
	redir -eo gcc (whatever) | less
Or if you dont feel like downloading less (which you should) just use:
	redir -eo gcc (whatever) | more

Of course, DOS more is not quite as friendly...  Or you could even redirect
it to a file and read it in your text editor.  I reccomend the following
invocation personally but you will need the GNU shell utils for it:
	redir -eo gcc (whatever) | tee output.fil | less

Then you can just read output.fil at your leasure, and read the scrollback
right away to get a quick look!

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