[X-Unix] 10.5 cli -what's up with 'more'?

[Mac Daddy]

Iiiiiinnnteresting.  So "less is more" really IS true in OS X!  I  
never knew that.

So after perusing 'man less', I see 'less -E' or, 'more -E' makes more  
behave like it used to under 10.4. An ANNOYING change! I've aliased  
more to more -E in /etc/bashrc so I won't have to put up with it again.

Thanks.

Someone else mentioned that this is the way some linuxes are going.  
Well thankfully in RHEL5 or Fedora Core 6 I have not seen this.  
Haven't tried FC7 yet.

- md


On Nov 30, 2007, at 10:13 AM, James Bucanek wrote:

> Eric F Crist <mailto:ecrist at secure-computing.net> wrote (Friday,  
> November 30, 2007 6:30 AM -0600):
>
>> On Nov 29, 2007, at 10:05 PM, Mac Daddy wrote:
>>
>>> Every time I 'more' something in Leopard, the output ends with a  
>>> reverse text  "<filename> 99%" line. THEN if I hit a key, I get a  
>>> reverse text "(END)", THEN if I hit a key I get my prompt. Grrr.  
>>> HOW ANNOYING! This never happened back with Tiger.
>>>
>>> How can I stop this and go back to my file scrolling out and then  
>>> ending with my prompt again?
>>>
>>> -md
>>
>> I'm not experiencing the same symptoms on my 10.5.1 system here.  
>> Until you get it fixed, you could use 'less' as a replacement.
>
> He is using less. more has been hard linked to less since Panther,  
> maybe earlier.
>
> When less is executed as more it runs in more compatibility mode.  
> There might be some clues there as to what's going on. See man less.
> -- 
> James Bucanek