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Old January 15th 16, 10:27 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
R.Wieser
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Default XP's "more.com" skips first lines of output -- a bigger problem

JJ,

The skipped line might actually be a single long line which is broken into
two lines because it's longer than the number of console buffer columns.


When I look at the contents of the file I redirected the output to all I see
are short lines. Also, my own version of the program stops reading after
80 chars and calls it a line (so I can count 24 displayed lines and than
wait for a keypress).

Also, XPs MORE.COM allows you to advance a single line by pressing SPACE.
The problem remains the same.

But I realized something: I said "skipped", but did not describe *how* it
was skipped (didn't think it was neccessary when I asked for a replacement).
The funny thing is that sometimes it actually skips the lines with nothing
on the screen indicating it hapopened, but sometimes it just scrolls the
screen up (as if only a CRLF is printed), line-by-line. Also, the /C
(clear screen before displaying output) didn't work when I tried it.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


-- Origional message:
JJ schreef in berichtnieuws
...
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 22:18:59 +0100, R.Wieser wrote:

I threw together a small program emulating a basic MORE program, and

noticed
it failed pretty-much the same way.

Either my OS has got problems or, more likely, there something wrong

with my
video card and/or driver ... I've already tried to disable hardware
accelleration, but that did not seem to help.

Oh well.


The skipped line might actually be a single long line which is broken into
two lines because it's longer than the number of console buffer columns.



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