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On 6/14/20, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> 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 <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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