| From: | Herouth Maoz <herouth(at)oumail(dot)openu(dot)ac(dot)il> |
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| To: | Jeff MacDonald <jeff(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] ?more? |
| Date: | 1999-06-22 15:15:47 |
| Message-ID: | l03130304b3955884f070@[147.233.159.109] |
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At 17:41 +0300 on 22/06/1999, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
> When I do a large select , the results all zip past the screen
> . How do I make it go page by page ? I figure this has to do
> with a term setting, my default term setting is 'linux' .
> I tried vt100 and vt220 .
>
> Perhaps this is a linux-ism ?
You have to set the environment variable PAGER. Usually, to "more", or
better yet, to "less".
This environment variable shoud be set by the individual user, not on the
server process or anything. Once set, it also affects other unix utilities,
such as man(1).
Herouth
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Herouth Maoz, Internet developer.
Open University of Israel - Telem project
http://telem.openu.ac.il/~herutma
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