From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: don@DonHopkins.com (Don Hopkins) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 19:15:56 +0100 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: > On 9 Nov 2017, at 18:19, Steve Nickolas wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, Arthur Krewat wrote: > >> On 11/9/2017 11:19 AM, Norman Wilson wrote: >>> It buffered text internally to allow backing up a few >>> pages, so it was possible to back up even when input >>> didn't come from a file (something I'm not sure the >>> more of the time could do). >> 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? > > -uso. Less is more because worse is better. -Don