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Re: "pg" command for linux?



> Something of note -- it's odd that "less" doesn't allow you to use
> control-C to abort it, nor does it allow you to use ENTER or SPACE
> to get out of it when you're at the end of the file.  This was
> driving my students crazy since they are in the pg-rut -- I had to
> keep reminding them to use "q".

<shudder>  I am _so_ thankful that less doesn't do thatby default!  Too
many times I'd be paging through a file, hit space one too many times and
be dropped out of the file.  This is _real_ annoying if you're looking
at the long output of a program!

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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