From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2559 invoked by alias); 11 May 2012 16:24:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 2407 invoked by uid 22791); 11 May 2012 16:24:03 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from vms173013pub.verizon.net (HELO vms173013pub.verizon.net) (206.46.173.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 11 May 2012 16:23:50 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.231] ([unknown] [108.20.163.244]) by vms173013.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0M3V00E6G9J6C9B0@vms173013.mailsrvcs.net> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Fri, 11 May 2012 11:23:34 -0500 (CDT) Message-id: <4FAD3D03.8000304@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 16:24:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [feature] alias "more" to "less" References: <4FACCED0.709@gmail.com> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A6E8CB938@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> In-reply-to: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A6E8CB938@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-05/txt/msg00238.txt.bz2 On 5/11/2012 9:35 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > Noel Grandin sent the following at Friday, May 11, 2012 4:33 AM >> It seems that pretty much all unixes alias "more" to "less" these days. >> It would be very nice if that was the default behaviour of cygwin. >> >> Would save me from constantly wondering why nothing is happening when I >> type "more ...." on a newly installed box :-) > > more.exe is supplied by the util-linux package. And as is true of the traditional 'more', it can do less than 'less'. ;-) -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple