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- VIEW 12.1
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- Starting with version 12.0 a new feature has been added.
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- If you press F4, the display starts to scroll at a user-definable rate.
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- The top line displays the current line numbers and can be used as an
- indicator that something has changed. The line number display is in
- columns 56-62. This is useful in enabling people using a speech synthesizer
- to get a continuous read-out of the file.
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- F4 is a toggle - when in scroll mode, press it again to pause the display
- and yet again to start it again.
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- The keys available are:
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- Esc - leaves scroll mode and goes back to regular mode.
- Home - takes you back to the beginning of the file.
- End - takes you to the last few lines of the file.
- Up arrow - moves back one line.
- Pg Up - moves up one screen (normally 23 lines).
- Pg Dn - moves down one screen.
- Left arrow - decreases the scroll rate.
- Right arrow - increases the scroll rate.
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- Shift-F5 - go to a particular line. After pressing Shift-F5 just enter the
- line number to move to and press Enter.
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- Important notes
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- 1. You should normally allow at least a second - possibly more - between
- each key press to allow the program time to respond. If you need to scroll
- back more than one line or screen, you will need to press the appropriate
- key more rapidly. If the display stops scrolling wait a second then press
- the key again.
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- 2. If you find a scroll rate you are comfortable with you can enter it on
- the command line using the /v switch The format is /vnnnn where nnnn is a
- four digit number that specifies the number of microseconds to display a
- line before scrolling. If less than 1000 the first digit must be zero.
- For example to set a scroll rate of one second the command line switch is
- /v1000 The default is 1.5 seconds.
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