From: "Luke Bishop" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: DOS with scrollback? Date: 18 Apr 1998 22:29:39 GMT Organization: The Zone Lines: 22 Message-ID: <01bd6a51$86974e00$3048a5c6@technoid> References: <3538ff3b DOT 7013142 AT news DOT ucsc DOT edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: n072h048.thezone.net To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk > 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!