[Babase] Conversion errors and less commands

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Fri Feb 17 13:16:38 EST 2006


FYI, I'm making the system slow now by running a conversion.

On 02/17/2006 11:45:37 AM, Karl O. Pinc wrote:

> Type the number first and then the g or G.
> ( Commands marked with * may be preceded by a number, N.)
> What's taking so long is that it's typing everything
> to the screen.

(You're actually doing 2 commands, g to go to the top of
the file, and then number carrage return says to repeat
the carrage return "number" times.)

You may find "less -N" useful.

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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