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CHANGE PAGER, CHANGE VIEWER, PAGER, PAGING, VIEWER

Syntax:

  change pager off|simple
  change viewer off|simple|external

The pager is used to display output that exceeds your terminal height, for example

help
subjects

The viewer is used to view long texts, possibly in a client-supplied viewer, for example help -v help or view <message> at a board.

The default setting is called simple; it breaks the output into "pages" the size of your screen and gives you a prompt that allows you to move forwards or backwards a page at a time.

The off option will send any such texts as regular output with no pagination.

You can modify your screen height with the change height command.

Users with clients that support the special MUME Client Protocol (e.g., powwow and powtty) can use change viewer external to instruct MUME to send viewed text to whatever your client uses to display these texts.

Note: Powwow users will need to set the POWWOWPAGER environment variable and remember to #init before this feature will work.