Yeah, p is all we need. I think it originated with td at UofT. I might have brought it with me to Bell Labs, or recreated it. Probably the former. The Plan 9 version is, except for a change of I/O library, likely the same code. 90 lines of C. More and less are both more and less than p. -rob On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 12:56 PM Larry McVoy wrote: > I believe that was my statement, not Dougs, and I stand behind it. > Less was a huge improvement. If you want me to dig out why I will > but I don't want to because it will make you look bad, that is not > my goal. > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 07:41:27PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > > On Jun 14, 2020, at 7:26 PM, Doug McIlroy wrote: > > > > > >> less(1) was actually an improvement > > > > > > Hmm. Less is my favorite whipping boy for featuritis. > > > > > > % less --help |wc > > > 242 1331 12202 > > > > % wc p.c > > 90 219 1504 p.c > > -- > --- > Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com > http://www.mcvoy.com/lm >