Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-apps-owner AT cygwin DOT com List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 08:56:14 +0000 Message-ID: <366-Sun17Mar2002085615+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: 21.5 (beta2) "artichoke" XEmacs Lucid (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 7.00 under 21.5 (beta2) "artichoke" XEmacs Lucid From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "David A. Cobb" Cc: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Link for MORE In-Reply-To: <3C939FF6.2040702@cox.net> References: <3C939FF6 DOT 2040702 AT cox DOT net> 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 instead. If that's not enough to fix configure, then your configure script is probably broken. (Having said that, I use "alias more=less" but that's for my personal memory, not a configure script.) David