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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.


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