print help content in a Command Prompt

[bkamrani]

Hi,
This is a basic problem, but I want to print help content in a Command
Prompt in WinXP and scrolling back to see the first lines. If I start
a command prompt and run python, and then for example,

>>help(list)

it starts showing the help, which can be controlled by page or raw
using Spacebar or Enter but after this ends, it seems that I can't
scroll back to see again the first lines.
In the Command Prompt Properties, layout tab, my Screen buffer size
is Width:80, Height:3000 and windows size 80x40 (W&H).

Any idea...? thanks in advance!!
/Ben

[Chris]

On Feb 25, 11:15 am, [e-mail] wrote:

Hi,
This is a basic problem, but I want to print help content in a Command
Prompt in WinXP and scrolling back to see the first lines. If I start
a command prompt and run python, and then for example,

>help(list)

it starts showing the help, which can be controlled by page or raw
using Spacebar or Enter but after this ends, it seems that I can't
scroll back to see again the first lines.
In the Command Prompt Properties, layout tab, my Screen buffer size
is Width:80, Height:3000 and windows size 80x40 (W&H).

Any idea...? thanks in advance!!
/Ben

With an 80x300 Buffer on a 80x25 Window Size I can see the help
perfectly fine just by scrolling up on the scrollbar... It seems
rather odd that your prompt would act any differently.

[Necmettin Begiter]

25 February 2008 Monday 11:15:14 tarihinde bk******@gmail.com şunları yazmıştı:

Hi,
This is a basic problem, but I want to print help content in a Command
Prompt in WinXP and scrolling back to see the first lines. If I start
a command prompt and run python, and then for example,

>help(list)

it starts showing the help, which can be controlled by page or raw
using Spacebar or Enter but after this ends, it seems that I can't
scroll back to see again the first lines.
In the Command Prompt Properties, layout tab, my Screen buffer size
is Width:80, Height:3000 and windows size 80x40 (W&H).

Any idea...? thanks in advance!!
/Ben

Try PgUp when in Python help view.

Try "python -c 'help(list)'" to get the help without Python prompt.

[bkamrani]

On Feb 25, 12:59 pm, Necmettin Begiter <[e-mail]>
wrote:

25 February 2008 Monday 11:15:14 tarihinde [e-mail] þunlarý yazmýþtý:

Hi,
This is a basic problem, but I want to print help content in a Command
Prompt in WinXP and scrolling back to see the first lines. If I start
a command prompt and run python, and then for example,

>>help(list)

it starts showing the help, which can be controlled by page or raw
using Spacebar or Enter but after this ends, it seems that I can't
scroll back to see again the first lines.
In the Command Prompt Properties, layout tab, my Screen buffer size
is Width:80, Height:3000 and windows size 80x40 (W&H).

Any idea...? thanks in advance!!
/Ben

Try PgUp when in Python help view.

Try "python -c 'help(list)'" to get the help without Python prompt.

Even this doesn't help. But I think I've found a reason for this.
If I change the "start in" directory to C:\WINDOWS\system32\ (this is
where the cmd.exe file is located), then the printed text doesn't get
hide. Don't ask me why...

Thanks anyway,
/Ben

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:18:19 -0200, <bk******@gmail.comescribió:

On Feb 25, 12:59 pm, Necmettin Begiter <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>25 February 2008 Monday 11:15:14 tarihinde [e-mail] şunları
yazmıştı:

Hi,
This is a basic problem, but I want to print help content in a Command
Prompt in WinXP and scrolling back to see the first lines. If I start
a command prompt and run python, and then for example,

>>help(list)

it starts showing the help, which can be controlled by page or raw
using Spacebar or Enter but after this ends, it seems that I can't
scroll back to see again the first lines.
In the Command Prompt Properties, layout tab, my Screen buffer size
is Width:80, Height:3000 and windows size 80x40 (W&H).

Any idea...? thanks in advance!!
/Ben

Try PgUp when in Python help view.

Try "python -c 'help(list)'" to get the help without Python prompt.

Even this doesn't help. But I think I've found a reason for this.
If I change the "start in" directory to C:\WINDOWS\system32\ (this is
where the cmd.exe file is located), then the printed text doesn't get
hide. Don't ask me why...

I usually open a new console pressing [windows key]+R, "run", no "start
in" directory is involved.
I've seen that after executing a 16-bit program, the console "switches" to
16 bit "compatibility mode", or something like that. The prompt is
displayed using short file names, and the screen buffer is disabled.

--
Gabriel Genellina