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Date: | Sun, 17 Mar 2002 08:56:14 +0000 |
Message-ID: | <366-Sun17Mar2002085615+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> |
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From: | David Starks-Browning <starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk> |
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To: | "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT cox DOT net> |
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Subject: | Link for MORE |
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On Saturday 16 Mar 02, David A. Cobb writes: > I'm finding that common tasks like configure sometimes depend on > "more", which we don't have. I can make it work by "ln -s /usr/bin/more > /usr/bin/less". I suppose the related info files should likely be done > also(?). > I propose putting that link in the delivery tarball (wherever less is). I suppose you could do this but the purists would say you should do export PAGER /bin/less instead. If that's not enough to fix configure, then your configure script is probably broken. (Having said that, I use "alias more=less" but that's for my personal memory, not a configure script.) David
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