>From: Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>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 us=
>ing
>>=20
>> Bad :-(
>Uh? Does Solaris have a editor executable?
I missunderstood you.
There is no 'editor'. There is $EDITOR or 'edit'
> l -i /bin/vi
305916 -r-xr-xr-x 5 bin bin 208152 Jun 1 1998 /bin/vi
> find /usr/bin /usr/ucb -inum 305916 -ls
305916 216 -r-xr-xr-x 5 bin bin 208152 Jun 1 1998 /usr/bin/edit
305916 216 -r-xr-xr-x 5 bin bin 208152 Jun 1 1998 /usr/bin/ex
305916 216 -r-xr-xr-x 5 bin bin 208152 Jun 1 1998 /usr/bin/vedit
305916 216 -r-xr-xr-x 5 bin bin 208152 Jun 1 1998 /usr/bin/vi
305916 216 -r-xr-xr-x 5 bin bin 208152 Jun 1 1998 /usr/bin/view
>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.
There is no MANPAGER.
I would simply default to 'more' but it would be OK to use 'less' in case it
is present and executable in your PATH. But this test must be done in a portable
way.
J�rg
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