Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:04:14 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: laa@laa.zp.ua, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PATCH src/etc/root : more->less Message-ID: <20000711130414.A7614@orion.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000711151131.37534C-100000@fledge.watson.org>; from rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 03:13:06PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007111519010.2632-100000@Eagle.ZGIA.zp.ua> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000711151131.37534C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 03:13:06PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > > How about we don't :-). Let's just use whatever "more" is as the pager, > the way it has always been. In new releases, more is less (or less is > more, or something), so there shouldn't be a problem, right? Also more as a symlink to less isn't quite the same as less. It acts like a proper more instead of like less. There are good an bad things about less's behavior vs more, but using less via the symlink prevents ugly POLA violations. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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