So sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] am Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 04:17:52PM +0200:
> >Mandrake doesn't have "editor". Well, it seems like it boils down to using
>
> Bad :-(
Uh? Does Solaris have a editor executable?
> I just checked SUSv2 and it seems that you may use less.... note that
> 'less' may not be present on a specific UNIX distribution.
>
> I guess that there are ~ 20 Million Solaris installations without less.
Well, you know it's *extremely* hard to guess the number of Linux
installations out there. According to counter.li.org, this guy guesses that
there are around 17 million Linux installations. Honestly, I don't know if
this guess is off, and if so, how far it's off.
> of course there are many millions of cash registers running SCO UNIX
> which has no less to :-) So my guess is that there are more UNIX
Uhm, exactly, that's what I meant with "highly specialized" systems *G*
> systems without less worlwide than ones that include less.
Okay. This maybe the case - but, if PAGER is not set, what should be used?
Let's say less *IS* available - why not use it? If it's available, is it
not reasonable to say that this is either the standard on this system,
and/or that the user manually installed it later on because he likes it
better than more? I aggree that more should be used as a fallback. But I
also say that less should be used if it's available as it's simply better
than more.
> command. If the PAGER variable is null or not set, the command will be either
>more
> or another paginator utility documented in the system documentation.
Yes, you said that you think that this allows the use of less. Any idea
about what they mean with 'documented in the system documentation'? Is this
excerpt from man man good enough of a system documenation?
| -P pager
| Specify which pager to use. This option overrides the MANPAGER
| environment variable, which in turn overrides the PAGER variable. By
| default, man uses /usr/bin/less-is.
Alexander Skwar
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