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[Jack Kern]

Julien Graglia wrote:

> > There is no horizontal scrollbar in xterm...
>
> arghhh!
>
> I try the solutions you gave me, but , "malheureusement" ,none of them 
> solve my problem :        . my console are already maximised 
> (horizontally)
>       . when i change the font, it came really unreadable
>       . when i deactivate "Auto Wraparound", there is only one line 
> but cut if too long and no way to get the "cutted" part when you 
> maximise the window
>
> In fact i just switch from Windows to Linux : DOS console can be 
> configured the way i need : dont wrap horizontally+horiz scrollbar;  
> and i just can't imagine that the Linux console (which is much more 
> advanced coz u can do everything from it:completion, color, 
> background, transparency...fancy options..) can do the same. I do man 
> / google / news / ask friends ... none knows how to do that..
>
> may be it is not in linux philosophy... 
> thanks for your replies
>
If you pipe your output to /usr/bin/less, the right and left arrow keys 
might do what you want.

For example:

jkern at boat:~$ cat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/fonts.alias | less

Or

jkern at boat:~$ < /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/fonts.alias  less