On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> define it in PAGER so there should be no problem. All releases
>> of Red Hat Linux I have at my disposal seem to define PAGER
>> properly anyways.
>
>Uhm, don't know about your RedHat Releases, I can only check two different
>RedHat 6.2 installations, and there PAGER is not set. And yes, less is
>available. Hmm, what tools page files other than man which seems to default
>to less even if PAGER is unset?
Yes, but because Red Hat Linux may do that does not mean it is a
portable thing to rely on.
>And also Mandrake 7.2 and 8.0 do not have PAGER set, even with less being
>installed by default.
Yes, but again making programs run on Linux without a care to
wether they run on other systems is not portability.
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