Subj : Re: XP's "more.com" skips first lines of output -- a bigger problem
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From: "R.Wieser" <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: XP's "more.com" skips first lines of output -- a bigger problem
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 10:27:01 +0100
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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 <[email protected]> schreef in berichtnieuws
[email protected]...
> 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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