First post, by DosFreak
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For quite awhile now I've always been annoyed that DosBox didn't support "More" by default. Requiring 3rd party utilities to add the functionality of "4Dos" or simply adding the utility into a path environment in DosBox. I've always used it to view .txt files (or any file really) in DOS/9x/NT using "Type readme~1.txt | more".
So today I was going to add this to the wish list thread when I suddenly got the bright idea to try something else. So I load up DosBox and type in "Type readme~1.txt /p".....and it views the file one page at a time.
Now as far as I know this functionality wasn't included in MS-DOS and it certainly isn't included in 2000/XP/20003.
I decided to look through the DosBox documentation to see if there was any mention of this...but there wasn't. So there it 'tis folks, if like me you too have been frustrated by not being able to view a .txt file quickly and easily in dosbox and have had to switch back to the host to do so....now you don't.
So....should "more" be added since /p works? Since type /p isn't a standard (and isn't documented in DosBox.....) whereas "more" is more of a standard, should "more" functionality be added....especially since "more" is more flexible and can be used in more situations?