So sprach Mike A. Harris am Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:48:03AM -0400:
> That sounds sane to me. The only problem is guessing where it is
> installed, or not specifying a path at all.
Yep. That's really a problem, especially considering that 'which' cannot be
used as it may be a csh script on some systems. Any idea how to portably
use something like 'which'?
> "default pager" if PAGER is not set, is application defined
> behavior. Most likely a compile time option in many
> applications, or changed via patching on Linux systems.
Hmm, yes.
> I like the fact that less is the default in most Linux systems,
> but it is not universal in UNIXland and should definitely not be
> relied upon.
That's *EXACTLY* my opinion. I never said anything different.
Alexander Skwar
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