Q: I have a file to view in a DOS window. Win 98 What is the keyboard command or what should I do to be able to page so it does not automatacially page at the bottom of the document. Me cannot read that fast;)
Thanks
guy
Re:<< A bigger monitor won't help — within a dos window, your stuck with a fixed number of displayed lines. A bigger monitor just makes a bigger font. >>
Yeah, unless you use that mode program (iirc that's the one) to change the text mode setting, i think you can get a 43 or 50 line mode or something like that.
Re:You can use the mode command to setup your monitor with more lines per screen. I can't remember how to do this. Anyone else?
Re:A bigger monitor won't help — within a dos window, your stuck with a fixed number of displayed lines. A bigger monitor just makes a bigger font.
Re:<< why not use winipcfg? go to start run enter winipcfg and it is the GUI version of ipconfig. Hit the all or advanced whatever button and you can get the mac addresses.
Bot >>
^what he said^
Or, the long way. Creat a text file, name it ipconfig.bat and put this in it (don't ask about the cd \ it would keep looping if I didin't put that in):
cd \
ipconfig /all
pause
Then creat a shortcut to it and modify the shortcut properties:
Under Layout change the screen buffer size height to something like 80. This will give you a dos window with a scroll bar and you can scroll up and see what you missed.
Re:type [filename] |more
without the brackets…
This will display your file one page at a time. Though you won't be able to scroll up and down– it only goes down.
You might try opening it in EDIT — then you'll be able to scroll up and down. If you change anything, it'll prompt you to save upon exit. Even if you delete the change… If you didn't mean to change it, just answer NO.
EDIT [filename] or use the toolbar at the top of the edit box…
If you need more help, pm me. I've been using some version of DOS for nearly 20 years.
Re:why not use winipcfg? go to start run enter winipcfg and it is the GUI version of ipconfig. Hit the all or advanced whatever button and you can get the mac addresses.
Bot
Re:did you try
ipconfig /all > ip.txt
and
ipconfig /all | more
both are ways of re-directing the program's output, first is to a file, second is to the "more" program that pauses between screens.
Re:look theres three ways to slow/stop the dos screen:
1. dir *.txt/p
2. type command.com|more
3. hit ctrl+s, you gotta be fast on this one 
Re:Thanks guys but none of the tries got me results. The /P switch takes me to a different part of the stuff I am looking for. I probably should have said "I want to look at the ipconfig/all on a win 98se machine that has 2 nics, I need to know the mac address of both nics and it skips past the first one so fast I cannt read it. still need some help.
guy
Re:No, Edit is the DOS editing program, so edit file.txt would work, or if he doesn't want to edit it he can type type file.txt | more
Re:Yeah I think "Edit FILE.txt | more" is the right one.
Re:<< I have a data file to view in a DOS window. Win 98 What is the keyboard command or what do I have to do to be able to page it so it does not automatacially page to the bottom of the document. I cant read that fast
Thanks
guy >>
I've been using linux too much so I'm used to cat README | less but that won't help you here so maybe try type README | more as this should do what you want, but of course you'll need to replace README with the name of the file you want to view.
Re:add the /p switch. /p=pause. Also see MS-DOS Commands (http://{$MySite}/msdos.htm#02)
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