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most-5.2.0

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Description

most is a paging program that displays, one windowful at a time, the contents of a file on a terminal. It pauses after each windowful and prints on the window status line the screen the file name, current line number, and the percentage of the file so far displayed. Unlike other paging programs, most is capable of display- ing an arbitrary number of windows as long as each window occupies at least two screen lines. Each window may con- tain the same file or a different file. In addition, each window has its own mode. For example, one window may dis- play a file with its lines wrapped while another may be truncating the lines...

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Ports path
misc/most
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
misc
Available flavors
None listed

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