Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 20:27:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Jeff Jirsa <jeff@unixconsults.com>, John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>, FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: Is simplicity despised? WAS: What do we need in a FreeBSD desktop? Message-ID: <20020807202345.H33423-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <20020807072509.GA31679@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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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
> --
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Yeah yeah yeah. *chuckle* By the way, [offlist], what's your PhD in?
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