Re: First time user of Red Hat - some simple questions

From: Jim Patterson (jim-patterson_at_ncf.ca)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 00:09:21 -0500

Tommy Reynolds wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 23:02:53 +0100, ronwer wrote:
>
>
>>>"less" and "more" are pagers. "more" is standard on DOS, and the linux
>>>version is similar (though more capable). "less" is like "more" only
>>>better.
>>
>>I have to be careful to start with DOS, that's a bit before my time. I
>>started out with W3.11 and have never studied DOS.
>
>
> Well, to be pedantic, "more" was the pager originally written as part
> of the AT&T UNIX distribution (I think around System III).
>
> DOS stole the name but broke the implementation.

I won't argue with that. I wasn't trying to give Microsoft any credit
(they have the worst implementation that I've seen), but people coming
from a Windows world are more likely to be familiar with that version.
It's "standard" only in the sense that it's a core part of the system.

> In a typical, "up yours" attitude the FSF folks called theirs "less"
> as a pun.

I've been using "less" a long time (on Windows/DOS just so I didn't have
to use the nearly useless MORE implementation, but also on various
Unixes before that). I seem to recall that they called it "less" because
it could back up in the file, which "more" couldn't do.

Jim P

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