>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jun 17 15:29:45 2001


>> Yes, $PAGER sounds better yet than less. Personally I use less as $PAGER
>> but I know people that uses emacs, mc, joe...

>But PAGER isn't always set.  If PAGER isn't set (as it's probably most often
>the case on Linux systems), I'd use less since this is the standard in
>Linux.  Now, if even less isn't available, I'd fall back to the least common
>demoniator being "more".  This is the way it seems to work on linux at what
>users expect.

Of course you need some basic knowledge on shell programming:

Use:

pager=${PAGER-more}

eval $pager someargs



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