From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 13:26:16 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] pre-more pager? In-Reply-To: References: <1510244372.15725.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> <0bb29030-cb59-dc42-5fce-7f5497eee1b6@kilonet.net> Message-ID: <01d5cbf6-65a1-c460-8dfc-5d7cf2333735@kilonet.net> 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?