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most
is a terminal pager program on Unix, OpenVMS, MS-DOS, Windows[1] and Unix-like systems used to view (but not change) the contents of a text file one screen at a time. Programs of this sort are called pagers.[2] It is similar to more
, but has the extended capability of allowing both forward and backward navigation through the file, and can scroll left and right. most
also supports multiple windows.[1]
Original author(s) | John E. Davis |
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Developer(s) | Mats Akerberg, Henk D. Davids, Rex O. Livingston, Mark Pizzolato, Robert Mills |
Stable release | 5.2.0
/ August 4, 2022 |
Repository | https://github.com/jedsoft/most |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | system utility |
License | GPL |
Website | jedsoft |
Mats Akerberg, Henk D. Davids, Rex O. Livingston, and Mark Pizzolato contributed to early VMS versions of most
. Mark Pizzolato worked on it to get it ready for DECUS. Robert Mills re-wrote the search routines to use regular expressions.[3]