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Date:      Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:46:02 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To:        Morten Seeberg <morten@seeberg.dk>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: more showing characters instead of %
Message-ID:  <20000727214602.D236@parish>
In-Reply-To: <03d201bff806$3729ed10$deff58c1@sos>; from morten@seeberg.dk on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:06:55PM %2B0100
References:  <03d201bff806$3729ed10$deff58c1@sos>

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On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:06:55PM +0100, Morten Seeberg wrote:
> Ehh a couple of us FreeBSD users are wondering why more now uses characters
> instead of % when showing how far down a file you are??
> 

Because more(1) is now less(1) :)

   # ls -li `which more less`
   215775 -r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  85744 20 Jul 21:13 /usr/bin/less
   215775 -r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  85744 20 Jul 21:13 /usr/bin/more

> This is in our opinion a bit wierd and problematic, because you rarely know
> how long your file is, when you use more, or at least when we use more :)
> 
> With % you always have an idea whether your file is 1k long or 20k long, if
> this is the way to implement more in the future, is there an option to more,
> so that I can make an alias that gives me % in more?
> 
> BTW In Solarisīs more you can use VI commands to navigate, pretty helpfull.
> 

So you can with less(1). Check out the manpage.

HTH

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