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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 08:12:11 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
CC: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: pager in default install
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Charles Wilson wrote:
> 
> Lame followup to my own post:
> 
> I think we should have A 'more' package for this reason:
> 
> Q: "Where's more?"
> A: In the 'more' package.
> 
> makes a lot more sense than
> 
> Q: "Where's more?"
> A: Use less instead.  It's better.  BTW, you'll probably need to set
> PAGER=less.  Oh, and NCFTP_PAGER=less.
> 
> (Okay, that last one is an exagerration. Actually, the ncftp code has a
> special cygwin hack so that on cygwin, ncftp uses less by default.
> Other platforms use more by default.  But you get the idea.)
> 

And it should be a base package.

Earnie.

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