"Less" 'set it up' (or rather the less package set it up). This is a relatively new scheme for handling utilities that can have more than one version installed but are also used by other programs. Thus, you can have 'more', 'less', 'muchmore', 'xless', and who knows how many others installed and available and use them but select essentially any one to be the 'default'.
Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote: > > > Hi, > > I just installed the man-db and manpages packges from hamm. (Before > > I was using the old ones from Bo). > > Now, whenever I try to man anything, it says: > > sh: /usr/bin/pager: No such file or directory > > sh: exec: /usr/bin/pager: cannot execute: No such file or directory. > > > > Where can I get this pager thing, or whatever is required to fix this? > > My hamm system shows: > > $ ls -al /usr/bin/pager > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jan 18 21:16 /usr/bin/pager -> > /etc/alternatives/pager > > and > > $ ls -al /etc/alternatives/pager > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 27 21:17 > /etc/alternatives/pager -> /usr/bin/less > > dpkg -S /usr/bin/pager doesn't return anything, so I don't know which > package set this up, but you might try putting in the links manually. > > hth, > Bob > > --- > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: "The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft!" See! They do get some things right! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
