how to page up/down in cmd.exe?

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while in cmd.exe, how to page up or down?

The page up/down key does nothing. Nor typical unix Ctrl+v.

probably a faq but am not familar with Win community to find the answer yet.
Thanks.

if there's a cmd.exe faq somewhere on msdn or technet, very much
appreciated. thanks.

Xah
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while in cmd.exe, how to page up or down?

The page up/down key does nothing. Nor typical unix Ctrl+v.

probably a faq but am not familar with Win community to find the answer yet.
Thanks.

if there's a cmd.exe faq somewhere on msdn or technet, very much
appreciated. thanks.

  Xah
∑http://xahlee.org/

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AFAIK, the only way to page up/down in a console window requires using
the mouse on the scroll bar (assuming the console's command buffer is
sized to hold more than one page of data).

Tom Lavedas
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You have to set the "Screen Buffer Size" (height) in the Command
Prompt's 'Properties' to something greater than the one in the "Window
Size" (height) first, under the 'Layout' tab.

I have mine set to a whopping 3500 lines - so after executing [ dir
/-p ] in the "system32" directory, I can then scroll back as far as I
want to through the directory listing for that folder.

You can then use the "scroll bar " as "T Lavedas" says, for long
back-tracks OR, as I do, use the mouse's scroll wheel instead just for
going back over the last few commands...

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
 
Xah said:
while in cmd.exe, how to page up or down?

The page up/down key does nothing. Nor typical unix Ctrl+v.

probably a faq but am not familar with Win community to find the answer
yet. Thanks.

if there's a cmd.exe faq somewhere on msdn or technet, very much
appreciated. thanks.
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Hello Xah Lee.

Frank P. Westlakes Conutils.zip conatins a conbuffer programm which allows
you to use pgup pgdown when output is piped to it.
<http://www.geocities.com/fp.westlake/nt/index.html>

HTH

Regards
Matthias
 
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