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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Less and More Post 3596 by Andy Hibbins on Friday 6th of July 2001 05:22:34 PM

07-06-2001

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Hi,

As you know "less" and "more" both allow you to view a file, however "less" has some advantages.

The main advantage of using "less" is that you can reverse scroll through a file and you don't need to wait for "less" to load the whole file into memory before you can start to view it.

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pod::pom::view::text

Pod::POM::View::Text(3) 				User Contributed Perl Documentation				   Pod::POM::View::Text(3)

NAME

       Pod::POM::View::Text

DESCRIPTION

       Text view of a Pod Object Model.

METHODS

       "view($self, $type, $item)"
       "view_pod($self, $pod)"
       "view_head1($self, $head1)"
       "view_head2($self, $head2)"
       "view_head3($self, $head3)"
       "view_head4($self, $head4)"
       "view_over($self, $over)"
       "view_item($self, $item)"
       "view_for($self, $for)"
       "view_begin($self, $begin)"
       "view_textblock($self, $textblock)"
       "view_verbatim($self, $verbatim)"
       "view_meta($self, $meta)"
       "view_seq_bold($self, $text)"
	   Returns the text of a "B<>" sequence in 'bold' (i.e. surrounded by asterisks, like *this*).

       "view_seq_italic($self, $text)"
	   Returns the text of a "I<>" sequence in 'italics' (i.e. surrounded by underscores, like _this_).

       "view_seq_code($self, $text)"
       "view_seq_file($self, $text)"
       "view_seq_entity($self, $text)"
       "view_seq_index($self, $text)"
	   Returns an empty string.  Index sequences are suppressed in text view.

       "view_seq_link($self, $text)"

AUTHOR

       Andy Wardley <abw@kfs.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright (C) 2000 Andy Wardley.  All Rights Reserved.

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.12.1							    2009-03-19						   Pod::POM::View::Text(3)