From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 17:27:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D370D37B400 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 17:27:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B6543E77 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 17:27:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 143E1290F6; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 20:27:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 20:27:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Matthew Seaman Cc: Jeff Jirsa , John Bleichert , FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: Is simplicity despised? WAS: What do we need in a FreeBSD desktop? In-Reply-To: <20020807072509.GA31679@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Message-ID: <20020807202345.H33423-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Ah, but on FreeBSD, less is more, more or less: > happy-idiot-talk:~:% ls -lai /usr/bin/{more,less} > 8199 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 85844 Aug 3 17:16 /usr/bin/less* > 8199 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 85844 Aug 3 17:16 /usr/bin/more* GNU. "Gnu's Not Unix." :) Ask a silly answer, guess a silly question. Sunuvva gun, that's cool - I wonder why they waste 85k of space instead of just having a symlink ;-) not that a user can't do that themselves... > The reasons it's called as 'more' by default on FreeBSD are history > and POLA. Omigawd, `more -e longfilehere.txt` works just as well as `less -e`!! > If you prefer to change the value, then as an individual user you > should know how to edit your .cshrc or .profile or .tcshrc or > .whatever for your favourite shell. As an admin, you can modify the > defaults for new accounts by editing the files in /usr/share/skel or > you can modify the global /etc/profile or /etc/csh.cshrc or even add > that environment variable in a shell-agnostic way by modifying > /etc/login.conf > Cheers, > Matthew > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks > Savill Way > Tel: +44 1628 476614 Marlow > Fax: +44 0870 0522645 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK Yeah yeah yeah. *chuckle* By the way, [offlist], what's your PhD in? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message