Today's computer users are spoiled with "user-friendly" displays and buttons to push.
In the olden days, with state-of-the-art "dumb" terminals such as HP 2645s, you had to know the keyboard shortcuts to do anything worthwhile.
It didn't take me long to learn Ctrl-S to stop the screen from scrolling. Otherwise (in VMS) the "ty" command displayed everything from beginning to end of the file you were hoping to examine. And once the page scrolled past, you couldn't go back to see what you'd missed.
Too true!
G’night all, I’ll check back in the AM for new tips and tricks.
Correction. There was no ‘ty’ command in VMS, or rather the DCL shell of VMS. There was however TYPE command (case insensitive), with a bunch of qualifiers some of which would control how much output you’d see on the screen at a time, etc. With VT terminals there was no scrolling back, of course. Still unsurpassed (DCL is) by any UNIX shell, or the pitiful shell in Windows.
P.S. I forgot to add that you could abbreviate any DCL command to its short unique value, or even define your own symbol (as in UNIX), so in that you are correct, ‘ty’ would be sufficient for the command to work.