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 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > /\/\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
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