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

[James Bucanek]

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