(I'm hacking this reply together manually, copied from http://l.d.o/d-m; I'm not subscribed): Cosimo Alfarano <kalfa@debian.org>: > Why not use sensible-pager, in debianutils (Essential: yes)? Because these scripts should run on non-Debian Linux systems as well. I want to avoid Debian-isms outside of the debian/ directory. I suppose I could cave a bit here, check for "sensible-pager", then try "less", then assume "more".