On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 09:38:53AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote: > > : I think that it is mostly historical (just about every Unix system since > : about 1970 has had 'more'). > : > : There are some other reasons that are now at least mostly not > : applicable. For example, 'more' will work on a printing terminal but I > : believe that 'less' will not. There might be other VDTs that can not > : use 'less'. Another 'problem' that surely would be rare anymore is that > : 'less' will use a great deal more memory than 'more' for large files. > : > : Take a look at 'zless' too. This nifty pager displays gzipped files > : too. > > Better yet, use ``lesspipe''. It's a shell script included in the > latest ``less'' package ... you set it up like so ... (for bash/ksh > anyway) > > eval $(lesspipe) > > Put this line in your .profile or /etc/profile. > > Now you can use ``less'' on anything ... > > There is no manpage for lesspipe, but it's mentioned in the `less'' > manpage.
Try man lesskey. Here's my .lesskey file: # $Header: /home/lee/RCS/.lesskey,v 1.1 1998/03/15 23:01:59 lee Exp $ #env LESS = -is LESSOPEN = |~/.lesspipe.sh %s Then you don't need the eval, and ANY version of less you use will read the configuration file. You already have a lesspipe script, so I didn't include mine. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]