On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote: : I think that it is mostly historical (just about every Unix system since : about 1970 has had 'more'). : : There are some other reasons that are now at least mostly not : applicable. For example, 'more' will work on a printing terminal but I : believe that 'less' will not. There might be other VDTs that can not : use 'less'. Another 'problem' that surely would be rare anymore is that : 'less' will use a great deal more memory than 'more' for large files. : : Take a look at 'zless' too. This nifty pager displays gzipped files : too.
Better yet, use ``lesspipe''. It's a shell script included in the latest ``less'' package ... you set it up like so ... (for bash/ksh anyway) eval $(lesspipe) Put this line in your .profile or /etc/profile. Now you can use ``less'' on anything ... There is no manpage for lesspipe, but it's mentioned in the `less'' manpage. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
