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First post, by olspookishmagus

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Hello.

With MS-DOS's more not being an option, I was wondering...
is there a pager for DOSBox?

Thanks in advance.

Reply 2 of 13, by olspookishmagus

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konc wrote:

May I ask why it isn't an option for you? Not being smart or anything, only because unless it's a special case it can be used.

Because, it would render my DOSBox installation non-clean.
Also I would make a request for it, because others might also want to keep it clean.

Reply 4 of 13, by olspookishmagus

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awgamer wrote:

What do you mean pager and non-clean? I've no idea what you're talking about.

By "pager" I'm talking about this:

cat looooooong.txt | pager

It will will output that looooooong text in one screenful after the other.

By "Non-clean" I'm having in mind the differences between the software licenses of DOSBox and MS-DOS.
If I'm up-to-date and correct Microsoft has released source for MS-DOS versions 1.0 and 2.0 only.

Reply 5 of 13, by Dominus

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4Dos? FreeDos?

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Reply 6 of 13, by olspookishmagus

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Dominus wrote:

4Dos?
FreeDos?

Or MS-DOS, that's not the issue here.

I should have been more clear in my initial post.
I'm looking whether a pager already exists within DOSBox.

Reply 7 of 13, by Dominus

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No, it doesn't but you can use free utilities that you can place in your path and use in Dosbox

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Reply 9 of 13, by konc

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olspookishmagus wrote:
Dominus wrote:

No, it doesn't but you can use free utilities that you can place in your path and use in Dosbox

Ok. I got my answer.

I'm kind of puzzled since you mentioned initially that you want it "clean" and then

olspookishmagus wrote:

Or MS-DOS, that's not the issue here.

So I'm just going to let it here as extra info either for you or anyone else: you can use MS-DOS "more" as long as you set the version right and don't use piping but redirection.
For example instead of textfile.txt |more, use more <textfile.txt

Reply 10 of 13, by Jorpho

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konc wrote:

For example instead of textfile.txt |more, use more <textfile.txt

I suppose it might not work with the oldest versions of "more", but "more textfile.txt" works perfectly without any piping or redirection.

I will add that the version of "more" in FreeDOS is probably licensed at least as permissively as DOSBox itself.

Reply 12 of 13, by olspookishmagus

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konc wrote:

I'm kind of puzzled since you mentioned initially that you want it "clean" and then

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Dominus wrote:

4Dos?
FreeDos?

Or MS-DOS, that's not the issue here.

True. I kind of contradicted myself there, please excuse me
What I had in mind is that if one had to use an external pager it would also ideally have to be something clean if possible.

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/me bows

Reply 13 of 13, by Azarien

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There are many good unix-like utils in the DJGPP package.
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/

many of them work flawlessly under DOSBox, some others not so much (e.g. the GCC compiler is buggy due to no LFN support in DOSBox).