More (software)

more(1) is a program on the UNIX system that receives textual input from a file or from another program one screenful at a time, passes it as output, and waits for the user to press a key at the terminal before repeating the process. (This type of program is called a pager.) When the input ends, more dumps all buffered output to the terminal.

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According to the manual page, more appeared in BSD 3.0, which was released in 1978. A clone of more was added to MS-DOS 2.0.

Related Topics:
BSD - 1978 - MS-DOS

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By default, the online manual pages are viewed through more.

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An improved version called less allows scrolling both forward and backward through the text.

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