VIEW.EXE Class: UNIX Permits the viewing and searching of text files. NAME VIEW View and search of text files SYNOPSIS view [-v] [] DESCRIPTION View is an all purpose utilty to permit the viewing and searching of any ASCII text file. The only command line flag used is -v. When this flag is on the visible mode is set. In this mode tabs are not expanded and newline characters are shown. View will also show text generated by other programs. This is very useful for looking at error messages etc. Use the DOS pipe command to send the standard output to View's standard input. lc test.c | view will load view with the output the the compilation of test.c One of the most powerful features of View is the use of Unix stlye regular expressions in it's search mode. Please refer to the enclosed text file for the use of regular expressions. Basically, a regular expression permits the search of very precise text strings. COMMANDS 0-9 enter number of times to repeat a command (1-35000 times) clear number delete last input character / search forward (with regular expression) ? search backward (with regular expression) < shift column-wise left > shift column-wise right , shift column-wise full left . shift column-wise full right n repeat last search N repeat last search with opposite direction a add a file to the argument list A same as a b back a page (also B or PgUp) d down a line (also D + or Enter) e goto end of the file (also END) f down a page (also F or PgDn) g goto line (also G) preceed with number of line eg 145g h goto top of file (also H or HOME) m next file in list (also M or RIGHT ARROW) p previous file in list (also P or LEFT ARROW) q quit the program (also Q or ESC) s show arg list (file list) (also S) u up a line (also U) x delete current file from file list (also X)