** Reply to note from Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:37:00 -0500 (EST) > > On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > wasn't about setting up servers.......it was about setting up a USEABLE > > default install for > > NEWBIES. Most installations are NOT going to be set up as servers, > > regardless of whether or > It's simple to do this. Point is it is not simple for a newbie to do this. > Most newbies are going to use bash, right, > rather than tcsh or ksh or something? So put > > eval $(lesspipe) > alias more=less > export PAGER=less That is similar to what I ended up doing.......but finding out how to do it and what editor to use initially was not by any means "simple". > > in /etc/profile and life is good. Then leave less and more where they are > in the filesystem, and someone who NEEDS to run more (eg. when the /usr > filesystem's broke) can do so by unaliasing more or just running it with a > full path. Makes a lot of sense to me.......leave the twiddling to the more experienced user who has a pretty good idea what's what.......for rookie newbies, make things as straight forward as possible; having default access to the two pgup/pgdn keys that are on practically any i386 based system keyboard, fits that description, IMHO. > > > I don't mean to be rude here, but quite honestly this sounds like something > > that may have > > applied years ago when running resource and hardware limited systems. I'll > > repeat my original > Sure. But engineering with these anchient ideas in mind is largely what > makes linux so stable and reliable. I'd really hate to think of adding these two keys (or the arrow scroll keys) to a utilitly such as more had the possibility of upsetting linux's stability. <grin> > > Besides which, when you're first setting up your system, it's quite > possible that you might incorrectly configure some things that would make > less unusable, like screen sizes and attributes. Hmmm.......I never ran across anything that gave me the ability to change these parameters in the base install. > > page up/down and backscroll. " If it takes a second floppy disk to round > > out a decent set of > > emergency programs then what's the big deal about that? In fact, IMHO, the > > benefits gained by > You can only put one in the drive at a time, unfortunately. :) > And can't take it out again to run another program on a second disk? This is LINUX we're talking about, right?? <big grin while playing devils advocate> Thanks for the comments Will........:-)
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