From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat)
Subject: [TUHS] pre-more pager?
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 13:26:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01d5cbf6-65a1-c460-8dfc-5d7cf2333735@kilonet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1711091218470.16687@frieza.hoshinet.org>
On 11/9/2017 12:19 PM, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, Arthur Krewat wrote: It would be nice if that was
> the case for more and stdin.
>>
>> more on Solaris 11.3 doesn't allow backup on stdin, nor on a recent
>> version of Debian Linux I checked.
>>
>> I remember a while back that when man spawned more, it was stdin and
>> you couldn't back up on that either. Very annoying.
>
> Isn't that the whole reason "less" exists?
# less
less: not found
# uname -a
SunOS vmsol7 5.7 Generic_106542-42 i86pc i386 i86pc
# find / -xdev -name less
#
It's not there in Solaris 7, and is there in Solaris 8. I wonder when
less started shipping with other operating systems?
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-09 16:19 Norman Wilson
2017-11-09 16:48 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-09 17:19 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-09 18:15 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-09 18:26 ` Arthur Krewat [this message]
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2017-11-09 13:33 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-08 22:58 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-08 22:02 Paul Ruizendaal
2017-11-08 22:20 ` Will Senn
2017-11-08 20:28 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-08 20:02 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-08 20:11 ` Forrest, Jon
2017-11-10 5:26 ` Random832
2017-11-10 7:31 ` Otto Moerbeek
2017-11-08 20:18 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-08 20:28 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 22:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-08 19:23 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-08 18:54 Will Senn
2017-11-08 18:59 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-08 19:06 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-08 19:31 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2017-11-08 22:43 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-08 22:47 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-08 23:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-09 4:38 ` Will Senn
2017-11-09 13:18 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-09 14:29 ` Will Senn
2017-11-09 20:53 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-10 0:15 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-10 2:14 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-08 19:12 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-08 19:22 ` Random832
2017-11-08 21:18 ` Will Senn
2017-11-08 21:59 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 22:00 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-08 22:18 ` Will Senn
2017-11-09 2:01 ` Steve Johnson
2017-11-09 2:16 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-11-08 19:29 ` Forrest, Jon
2017-11-08 19:43 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 21:03 ` Mark Green
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