From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 13:46:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0085037BB36 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:46:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.84.175]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000727214515.PUBX3760.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:45:15 +0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA02648; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:46:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:46:02 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Morten Seeberg Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more showing characters instead of % Message-ID: <20000727214602.D236@parish> References: <03d201bff806$3729ed10$deff58c1@sos> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <03d201bff806$3729ed10$deff58c1@sos>; from morten@seeberg.dk on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:06:55PM +0100 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > /\/\orten $eeberg, Systems Consultant @ > Merkantildata - Enterprise Solutions > #echo 'System Administrators suck :)' > /dev/console > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, am I entitled to my money back? ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message