i like to use the console, but i can't figure out how to freeze the output to fit the screen on a dir or ls command (like dir/p in M$dos).i did a "ls --help", but half of the text is off the screen:(

that would be great,
thanks

When using a virtual terminal (on a vga card), you can use Shift-PgUp to scroll up. To suppress scrolling on a real long dump, you can use the compination Ctrl-S/Ctrl-Q, on any terminal. The most common way though is pipe it to the programms more or less. For example:
ls --help | more
or
find | grep "\.[ch]$" | less
(which is a cryptic way to say "show me all files and their directories relative to pwd in and under pwd which end on ".c" or ".h" ")