Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sun-barr!decwrl!wam.UMD.EDU!djm From: djm@wam.UMD.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: why does less beta not use $MORE? Message-ID: <8909161701.AA27196@cscwam.UMD.EDU> Date: 16 Sep 89 17:01:31 GMT Distribution: na Organization: University of Maryland Lines: 9 Just wondering if there's a reason less (the beta posted to alt.sources recently) doesn't use the MORE environment variable if LESS isn't defined. Isn't its comment line syntax upward-compatible with that of more? This would make it a plug-in replacement for more, so you could even make more just a link to less and not have to deal with that creaky old more any more. -- David J. MacKenzie