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From: smaug@eneevax.UUCP (Kurt J. Lidl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: more
Message-ID: <1403@eneevax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 88 19:34:56 GMT
References: <6064@swan.ulowell.edu> <6065@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: smaug@eneevax.umd.edu.UUCP (Kurt J. Lidl)
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Organization: Elec. Eng. Dept., U of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
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Keywords: More (Less)
Summary: Brain-damaged software

In article <6065@swan.ulowell.edu> rsilvers@hawk.ulowell.edu (Robert Silvers.) writes:
>
>     I was using the version of more that comes on WB 1.3 and can not
> explain what happened.   It would spell some of the words wrong!   
> It turned "today" into "tooday", and "that" into "tt."
> He said those mistakes were
> not in his document and that it was displaying it wrong.   I explained
> to him that computers just print what is there and that if more showed
> "tooday", then he spelled it wrong.   He said I was wrong, so I bet him
> money.   I lost.   Both type and a word processor showed it corectly.

	Actually, the version of More (called Less) that is distributed
with WB1.2 (from my 2000) is brain-damaged also.  It has this tendency to
repeat characters and the part that really ticks me off is that it almost
always repeats the last line of the text file twice.  
	I have come to the conclusion that the program does not correctly
fetch and display the text, but gets confused in the process.  Thus,
my solution: Use a different text viewer.  I personally use a
share-ware program called "Blitz!" that is simply wonderful.  Has a 
seperate screen, scrolls back and forward in a document and is
completely mouse-driven, though you have keyboard equivilents for the
important functions.

>|Robert Silvers.                                                           |

Kurt Lidl  (smaug@eneevax.umd.edu)