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<DIV><FONT size=4>HellO!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>You could try pico.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Its an editor but its great to read with.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>At least when i was a debian user.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>/ANders.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=tony@baechler.net href="mailto:tony@baechler.net">Tony Baechler</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, May 21, 2007 12:08 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Console text file viewer</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi all,<BR><BR>I'm looking for a file viewer program for plain
text that's <BR>console-based. I'm aware of more(1) and less(1) but
that's not what <BR>I had in mind. I want more than a pager. I
would like something <BR>like a DAISY reader but for plain text. It
would be nice if it <BR>automatically scrolls so I don't have to hit a key
every 24 or 25 <BR>lines of text. I would like to jump to a specific
screen number or <BR>line number in the file. For example, if the file
has 250 lines and <BR>there are 25 lines per screen, it would be nice to go to
screen 5 or <BR>line 125 to reach the halfway point. The biggest thing I
want is to <BR>drop bookmarks at any position and have it immediately come
back to <BR>that same point next time I open the file.<BR><BR>Something like
the lynx(1) browser would work if it could do <BR>bookmarks like I described
above and if it would automatically scroll <BR>the text. If the viewer
could do other formats like html and rtf <BR>that would be great but plain
text is all that I really need. It <BR>would be nice if it also runs
under Windows or is written in a <BR>portable scripting language like Python
or perl. Oh, it needs a <BR>decent search facility, both case sensitive
and otherwise, forward <BR>and backward. I thought about something like
vi(1) but it doesn't <BR>offer bookmarks and I don't want to make any changes
to the <BR>files. Finally, it needs to support large files of up to 30
MB or so.<BR><BR>I have an ancient DOS viewer that I'm using now from 1992 but
it <BR>doesn't offer bookmarks and the search doesn't always work. I
can't <BR>send it to you but it's included with Vocal-Eyes from GW Micro in
the <BR>demo archive. If anyone has any ideas, I'm interested in looking
at <BR>them. It would be good if the viewer could run from an ssh
<BR>session. I'm running Debian Sarge but will be upgrading to Etch
<BR>shortly. Thanks for any help.<BR>----------<BR>Tony
Baechler<BR>Baechler
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