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Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 05:31:33 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
From: Michael A Chase <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
Subject: Re: ncftp's lls requiring /bin/more
To: Greg Matheson <lang AT ms DOT chinmin DOT edu DOT tw>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:29:01 +0800 Greg Matheson <lang AT ms DOT chinmin DOT edu DOT tw> wrote:

> Another ncftp peculiarity is lls, which won't work because it
> requires /usr/bin/more.
> 
> The manual says you can set the environmental variable, $PAGER,
> but that didn't work for me.
> 
> I forced lls to work by linking /bin/less to /bin/more.

Perhaps the pager variable in ncftp is overriding $PAGER and it is set to
'/bin/more' in your system.  Use the ncftp 'set' command to change it:

   set pager less

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