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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 08:18:38 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: Earnie Boyd <Cygwin-Apps AT cygwin DOT com>
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To: David Starks-Browning <starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk>
CC: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT cox DOT net>, cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Link for MORE
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David Starks-Browning wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

Good point.  Hey, Robert, why not add this to the /etc/profile file that
setup creates?

Earnie.

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