Simple text fiel viewere?

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Wed May 21 08:42:12 PDT 2003


On 2003-05-21 15:44, Ceri Davies <setantae at submonkey.net> wrote:
>On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 04:30:07AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>On 2003-05-20 21:10, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
>>> I'm looking for a simple (notepad like) text file viewer. I need to be able
>>> to use this in "read only" mode WO the posibiliy of the user editing the
>>> file.
>>
>> Try running:
>>
>> 	xterm -e 'less FILENAME'
>
> And then try hitting 'v'.

HAHA.  You got me there.  You can fake read-only mode with:

	xterm -e 'EDITOR=/bin/false less FILENAME'

Anyway, this is probably not helping the original poster anymore :)



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