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From: "Ronald Landheer" <info AT rlsystems DOT net>
To: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT home DOT com>,
        "Cygwin Library General Discussion" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: less is more
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:24:01 +0200
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Hello David,

You wrote:
> Regretably, the latest xemacs configure uses more to deal with
> configure --help.  I'm sure that isn't the only piece of *Nix software
> that assumes the existence of more.
> I fixed it, of course, by ln -s /usr/bin/less /usr/bin/more.
> We might reasonably include such a symlink in our distribution.  (Then 
> there should also be ln -s /usr/man/man1/less.1 /usr/man/man1/more.1)
Personally, I would be more in favour of a "more" wrapper that makes 
less act like the more utility (a symlink wouldn't do that).

I have the line 'alias more="less -X -F"' in my .bashrc file to handle 
this, but a shell script in the bin durectory that does the same thing 
would be absolutely fine by me - though an alias is easier to implement.

Personally, though, I think it can be considered a misfeature (or a bug) 
to expect the more pages to be there: it generally doesn't come with 
*nix distri's, while less generally does..

Greetz!

Ronald


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