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Old 29th June 2008
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Originally Posted by kienjakenobi View Post
Yeah, there is not really much use for it except for the times when I am confined to a console and I need to read a message that is longer than can be displayed on my screen at one time.

In this case, of course, I can just log the output of the command into a file and then open it in an editor, but that can be an awful lot to do for some simple console read-outs sometimes.

He he. How very lazy.
Perhaps it's time to read the more(1) and less(1) man pages.

i.e:
% dmesg | less
Now you know..
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