I would not mind having most or all standard DOS utilities but 'more' would not be on the top of my list. There were a few old games that produced some text output through more during setup but I don't think any of them depended on more. For me the following would be higher priority: redirect/append (>>), copy/append (copy a+b), xcopy. The first is nice to have while troubleshooting, for the other two there are cases of broken games -- no matter how stupid sound setup in Discworld is, it requires xcopy to run properly.
BTW, you are absolutely right, type /p is not in any version of MS DOS. It just feels so natural that I never actually questioned it 😉

append is present (>>)
if it doesn't work properly submit a bug

type /p is is something from ykhwong. it's not present in the regular version as It's not in msdos 😀 but I might add it if you all find it very convienant.

My mistake, I did not notice that >> is working. I remember trying it some time ago (could be long time ago) and something did not work right. Well, it still has that issue with CR/LF but that's different story.

Yep, your right Qbix. It's only in ykhwong's build. Man, I should just rename each dosbox.exe to the name of the person who built it to differentiate between builds....

I agree with vasyl that "More" probably isn't that important compared to append, copy a+b, or xcopy....

But pausing at each screen is highly usefull..

Perhaps a /p option isn't necessary for "type". Could it automatically pause if output to console? Does anyone use type 1.txt > 2.txt for anything?

would be very unhandy.
implementing more shouldn't be that difficult though. as long there is a writable drive somewhere. else we have to store it in memory and I doubt that msdos did that.

IIRC, DOS used a temporary file in %TEMP% for "more" (or pipes in general).

I just run edit.com inside DOSBox to view text files. Even the version that comes with WinXP in the \windows\system32 directory works in DOSBox. You can also view binary files as raw ASCII data by using the /78 parameter.

Not sure if Qbix wants to include edit or not. Although it would be usefull.......

Edit for me is too slow for viewing text files....and kinda unecessary if you just want to view a text file quickly.

As far as external commands go, Vern Buerg's famous LIST.COM is still famous 😉

Yeah. I still have LIST somewhere in my path. Works fine under WinXP. 😎

I'd forgotten about list.com! I used to use it all the time back in my DOS days as my primary text viewer.

For an editor I used to use some program (I think the name started with the letter 'p' but I'm not sure) that had a blue background and a red (or maybe grey) bar at the bottom?

I used Microsoft's edit.com to replace both of those (for the most part) once DOS 5 or 6 came out.

As an editor, I use a program called "DCT File Editor" (e.exe), a fast and really small editor looking a lot like edit.com. It's german, though 😉