X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4FAD3D03.8000304@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 12:23:31 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: [feature] alias "more" to "less" References: <4FACCED0 DOT 709 AT gmail DOT com> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A6E8CB938 AT NIHMLBX02 DOT nih DOT gov> In-reply-to: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A6E8CB938@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 5/11/2012 9:35 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > Noel Grandin sent the following at Friday, May 11, 2012 4:33 AM >> It seems that pretty much all unixes alias "more" to "less" these days. >> It would be very nice if that was the default behaviour of cygwin. >> >> Would save me from constantly wondering why nothing is happening when I >> type "more ...." on a newly installed box :-) > > more.exe is supplied by the util-linux package. And as is true of the traditional 'more', it can do less than 'less'. ;-) -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple