On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 08:03:46AM -0800, Evan Hunt wrote:
> > BTW, the file more.c is unbelievable unreadable junk...
>
> ...which brings back my old pet subject: Is there a compelling reason we
> can't just ditch more.c entirely and replace it with less(8)?
backward compatibility, as you can see a small group of people still
use more(8).
> SCO did that more than 15 years ago now--their "more" command is just the
> 1992 version of "less" with the name changed. It surprises me that
> here it is 2008, but in this one particular (and admittedly fairly minor)
> respect, SCO OpenServer is *still* more advanced and usable than any linux
> distro I've tried.
Nobody forces distributions to install more(8). Is there any Linux
distribution that provides only less(8)?
I can add more(8) to the DEPRECATED file, but I'm sure we will see
more(8) in our distributions for next few years.
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
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