Re: Attn: Newbies Re: Random "Broken Pipe"

[Bill Leach <bleach@bellsouth.net>]

I think that it is mostly historical (just about every Unix system since
about 1970 has had 'more').

There are some other reasons that are now at least mostly not
applicable.  For example, 'more' will work on a printing terminal but I
believe that 'less' will not.  There might be other VDTs that can not
use 'less'.  Another 'problem' that surely would be rare anymore is that
'less' will use a great deal more memory than 'more' for large files.

Take a look at 'zless' too.  This nifty pager displays gzipped files
too.


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-bill
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