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From: wcs@ho95e.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Pg vs. Less (Re: Sun vs. 3B2 (was: Ksh availability?))
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Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 20:50:07 EST
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In article <1957@killer.UUCP> elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes:
>"pg" is sorry compared to "less".

"pg" comes with System V.  "more" comes with 4.*BSD.
"less" is public domain, and doesn't come standard with either, last I
checked.  When you're having a religious war about whose computer is
better, it's fair to compare "pg" and "more"; it's not fair to compare
"less" with either one since it didn't come from either the
Government-funded BSD community or the commercial AT&T (NIH) community.
It came from an independent person who wanted the best features of both,
and didn't have to go through a large bureaucracy to add them.

pg has a few good feature more doesn't, and not as many bugs,
but it's not as friendly and I seldom use it.  Instead, I
alias more=less and usually get what I want.  You can too, since the
source comes free off the net.