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how would i dump a text file to a screen non-interactively? just to read and continue on....
  1. 05-25-2007 #1
    jwmw1023
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    dump text file to screen

    how would i dump a text file to a screen non-interactively? just to read and continue on.
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  2. 05-27-2007 #2
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    What do you mean with non-interactively? Scrolling a text file to the screen with a delay?

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    Try more file or less file?
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  4. 05-29-2007 #4
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    i just mean it cant be vim or some other program that needs to be "exited" by a button press. less might work... ill try that.
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    Why not just use cat? This is what cat does: it prints the file to the screen.
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  6. 05-30-2007 #6
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    cat? ok ill try that too. thx
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