more

more

\ windows \system32\more.com

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more displays one screen of text at a time. More is often used as a filter with other commands that may send a lot of output to the screen (i.e., to read standard input from a pipe or redirected file). Press any key to see the next screenful of output. Press Ctrl-C to end the output before it is done. more accepts the following options:

 more /e [/c] [/p] [/s] [/tn] [+n] [   filename   ] more [/e [/c] [/p] [/s] [/tn] [+n]] <   filename     {some other command}   more [/e [/c] [/p] [/s] [/tn]     [+n]] 

Option	Description
filename	Specifies the name of a file to display.
/c	Clears the screen before displaying file.
/e	If the /e option is specified, the following additional extended commands are available at the -- More -- prompt: P n : display next n lines, S n : skip next n lines, Spacebar: display next page, Enter: display next line, F : display next file, Q : quit, = : show line number, ? : show help.
/p	Expands form-feed characters .
/s	Squeezes multiple blank lines into a single line.
/t n	Expands tabs characters to n spaces (default 8).
/+ n	Starts display of the file at line n .

Examples

 C:\>  more c:\windows\readme.txt  C:\>  type c:\windows\readme.txt  more  C:\>  dir c:\windows  more