So sprach Mike A. Harris am Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 08:30:58AM -0400:
> I would consider defaulting to "less" to be very unportable
> behavior despite the fact that Linux systems normally install
> it, as most UNIX systems do not have "less" installed.
Yes, that's true. I never said that 'more' should not be used - I merely
said that the pager should default to less if PAGER is unset (as in RedHat
6.2, Mandrake 7.2 and 8.0) and then, if less cannot be run, fallback to
more, which most certainly is available.
My "problem" is, that on my system (Mandrake), PAGER is unset, and still
less seems to be the default - however, could someone please tell me of
another tool besides 'man' that silently calls the default pager? From what
all of you have said here, I *VERY* much would like to check if less is
really treated as the default inspite of PAGER being unset.
Thanks,
Alexander Skwar
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