I have read the man page but don't understand it. How do I get the ls command to list items one page at a time so I dont miss something in DOS I think it's dir -w-p

try

ls | more

the | is the "pipe" , above my \ key on my UK keyboard

Hi, when in a shell you can use "shift+PageUp" to scroll up the page

and "shift+PageDown" to scroll down,

or "enter" to get back to the prompt.

The amount you can scroll will depend on the amount of memory available to the shell/terminal.

A nice little cheat sheet from fosswire....

http://fosswire.com/cat/programming/page/4/

see how you go, cheers, Glenn

ps, the standard commands may not be enough to do what you want,
[glenn@GamesBox ~]$ man ls
[glenn@GamesBox ~]$ info ls
[glenn@GamesBox ~]$ ls --help

But as mentioned above by "keratos", the pipe function adds some control to the lookup.

ls | more
ls | less

hit q to quit/exit

Well, I'll be.........learn something new everyday

Glad to contribute, pixellany.

I would have liked to say how to increase the memory but I only know the gui konsole way, not the bare shell settings(with out a gui running).

Hmmm...

I think you would edit /etc/profile and change HISTSIZE=1000 to the number of lines you want.

Jim