Is it about time to move this thread away from this mailing list????
BTJ
On Sunday 17 June 2001 16:37, Bj�rn Terje Johansen wrote:
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> > From: Alexander Skwar[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 4:37:31 PM
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> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CDcontrol software released
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> 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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