From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 12:19:02 -0500 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] pre-more pager? In-Reply-To: <0bb29030-cb59-dc42-5fce-7f5497eee1b6@kilonet.net> References: <1510244372.15725.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> <0bb29030-cb59-dc42-5fce-7f5497eee1b6@kilonet.net> Message-ID: 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.