Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Friday 13 January 2012 22:17:41 Bruce Dubbs wrote:
That said, if you want to spend the effort to update and maintain a
program that duplicates functionality, than that's up to you. I just
think you may want to be careful of NIH thinking.
the work was already been done, and technically speaking, one could say that
everything other than "more" is NIH thinking ;). can you name a pager that is
older than "more" ?
No, of course not. Please understand that I have no connection with the
'less' project. I don't know why it forked, but it too has been around
since at least 1995 and appears to pre-date Linux (and Util-Linux).
The website goes back to 'Version 290' in 1995.
I've been working with computers since before Unix (and Linux) and know
a little computing history. Before 'Glass TTYs' there were paper
terminals and I suspect 'more' was designed with those paper terminals
in mind. 'Less' appears to have been designed with terminals such as
the VT100 in mind. Sometimes it's beneficial to redesign a program when
something new comes along rather than patch an old design.
-- Bruce
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