Paging wide ( > 80 char/line) files

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In article <298 at kl-cs.UUCP> jonathan at cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes:
>From article <585 at wc11.idca.tds.philips.nl>, by ekkel at idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Erik Ekkel):
>> My Informix 4GL application generates reports with more then 80 char/line.
>> Does somebody know a paging mechanism to show this reports on a normal
>> screen ???  I would like to use some horizontal scrolling features.

If your terminal supports 132 characters per line, you can take advantage
of the fact that 'pg' reads the environment variable COLS that can be set
in a shell script.  E.g.:

	COLS=132
	export COLS
	echo "what-ever-magic-to-set-terminal-132-col-mode"
	pg $*
	echo "what-ever-magic-to-set-terminal-80-col-mode"

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