Re: questions about most

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr wrote:
>Andres Salomon wrote:
>> I see.  Is there any possibility of getting you to change your mind?  I mean,
>> it even says "paging type system" in the description.. and i'd like to have
>> my man pages in color on _all_ my debian boxes (w/out having to manually run
>> update alternatives, that is)  ;)
>
>I love most's color man pages. :) It has some strange behavior with large
>files, memory dumps and pipes ;) but it's a better pager than more :)

Printing out the file on fanfold paper and paging through it by hand is
a better pager than 'more'. :)

I seem to be spending half my time at work at the moment compiling up
Debian utilities on various Unixen in order to get a halfway usable
userspace. 'less' was one of these on HP-UX, as the /usr/local/bin/less
on that machine is compiled with broken terminfo libraries, and their
'more' was just too painful to contemplate using. It's rather weird when
your .bashrc does something along the lines of this:

  export PATH=$HOME/bin/`uname`/`uname -p`:$HOME/bin/`uname`:$PATH

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]