[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jun 17 15:42:21 2001
> >> pager=3D${PAGER-more}
>
> >pager=3D${PAGER-less} if you don't want to surprise a lot of Linux users who
> >are used to the comfort of less.
>
> Well you are misinterpreting standards. The standard pager is more and if
> a user did not set $PAGER he does not care about the pager he uses.
> This is how UNIX always worked.
We agree on this one. Not only is 'less' not present on all systems, but
there are at least two implementations floating around, possibly three.
Like Korn shell and bash, there are some compile-time options to one of
the less sources which can change the way it works.
Also noted in passing, while some implementations of 'tail' have a -b
option, a block can be 512 or 1024 bytes, making it a bit
non-deterministic. I don't have a POSIX.1 here, but I have to feel that
the count by lines and bytes are more likely to produce postable
results. Since implementations of tail predate POSIX, standard and
portable are not the same thing, so let's not reopen a discussion of
that.
--
-bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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