.\" .\" vii - buffer and display output .\" Copyright (C) 2005 Peter Miller .\" .\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or .\" (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the .\" GNU General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License .\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software .\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA. .\" .\" MANIFEST: index.html .\" .de an-p-footer .. .ad l .hy 0 .so version.so .br .br .br Vii \*(v)

Vii \*(v)

Vii (pronounced “seven”) is a simple program which accepts input from the standard input and displays pages of the input on the terminal. These pages are delimited by form-feeds (or EOF). The display can be scrolled if the output is wider or longer than the screen. .br

Vii can also repeatedly execute a command (at a configurable interval) and the most recent output is displayed. This is useful for status monitoring where the command itself does not have a repeatable or curses interface. .br

I've been carting this program around since about 1990, because it is generally useful for monitoring things. I've made a project for it on SourceForge because it makes it nice and easy to gab vii when working on other folks' systems. The overly grand version number was caused by an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine.

This page is hosted by SourceForge: see also the .br Project and .br Statistics pages.
.br .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For example, monitoring a printer queue can be accomplished by a command such as
while : ; do clear; lpq | tail -23; sleep 60; done

which has the disadvantage of flickering annoyingly, plus it can't scroll and long lines make it too long for the display. .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitoring a printer queue can also be accomplished using the vii command:
vii -e "lpq" -i 60

which has the advantage of being able to scroll up and down for lists longer than the screen, and also left-right for wide texts. .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .br

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Files for Download

The following files are availoable for download:
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File Name	Description
`vii-\*(v).README`	The `README` file from the tar distribution.
`change_log.txt`	The release notes, detailing what has happened in this release.
`vii-\*(v).lsm`	Brief description in .nf LSM .fi format.
`vii-\*(v).tar.gz`	The complete source.
`vii-\*(v).ae`	The complete source, in aedist format.

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The Bleeding Edge

Vii is developed and maintained using Aegis, a transaction based software configuration management system. .br

Vii developers may access the latest development changes through the Aegis web interface. .br

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.br Vii is written and owned by Peter Miller <millerp@canb.auug.org.au> and is freely distributable under the terms and conditions of the GNU GPL. .br

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