On Tuesday 03 Jun 2008, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: You beat me to it. I was about to post who uses "more" anymore?
.... snip ... > > It is less and less nowadays. > more or less :) > I stopped using more(1) more than 6 years ago. my exp. see below. > It can also display percentages, move back one page, half page or few > lines at a time , turn pattern based search on and off and so on. and a whole lot more, I still keep learning things about it. > It is only the really really old UNIX hackers that still are stuck > with more(1). Not really. Circa 1986/7, is when I first came across "less" @ Bell Labs on all the Unix systems and started using it. It became very popular amongst all of the "really really old UNIX hackers" (as Girish puts it) in a short time. Nobody used it except for legacy apps that needed it for pagination of text output, it was frustrating to go through the output given that we were used to "less." -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
