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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
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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 <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> 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

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