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From: auvhess@auvc6.tamu.edu (David K. Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: neat feature in "more"
Message-ID: <12712@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Date: 26 Feb 91 18:07:27 GMT
References: <435@heaven.woodside.ca.us> <AHUMANBEING.91Feb26082659@earth.planet.universe>
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In article <AHUMANBEING.91Feb26082659@earth.planet.universe>,
aHumanBeing@earth.planet.universe writes:
|> In article <435@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us
(Glenn Reid) writes:
|>    I found out that if you hit 'o' while you're in more(1), the file
|>    that you're currently viewing will be opened in Edit.  Pretty neat.
|>    Just thought some of you might want to know about this.
|> 
|> great. now people can wipe out their man pages. real helpful. thanks.

Give it a break. man pages are usually owned by root and nobody else has
write privileges unless you are foolish enough to login as root all the
time.

This makes a good way to grab a snippet of a man page and reformat and print
for your own use.

Investigate a little more before you decide to slam somebody's tidbit.

Dave Hess
Graduate Student
Texas A&M University
auvhess@auvsun1.tamu.edu


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