Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply

From	anthony gennard <agennae@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply
Date	2020-09-25 12:20 +0200
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My email has gone haywire and I cannot reply to two of the messages.
Fortunately, I had made copies of them.
Greg Wooledge said to me
>"How are you `looking at ` the file?
>I would suggest using less.

>You get out of less by pressing p

Greg, I was using less.
What I did was:- Open  a terminal by ctrl + alt + F1
`cd  /var/log` then `ls` and I could see boot.log amongst the list of files
then I did `sudo less boot.log` and got the list of start ups.
At this point I was stuck and asked the list for help.
I was such a fool because I did not look up the man page for less.
I went through the process and pressed p and low and behold and was back to
the `root@??? /var/log`.
Thank you.
Now I have to try and print a copy of the first 100 or so lines which
will give me the last boot up details.

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Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply anthony gennard <agennae@gmail.com> - 2020-09-25 12:20 +0200
  Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-26 04:50 +0200
    Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply anthony gennard <agennae@gmail.com> - 2020-09-26 13:20 +0200
    Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2020-09-28 07:30 +0200
      Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-09-28 13:50 +0200
        Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2020-09-28 14:50 +0200
          Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-28 16:20 +0200
          Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-09-28 16:40 +0200

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