From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2003-12-17T14:29:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions


On Dec 16, 2003, at 16:35, Luke A. Kanies wrote:
>  but anything that supports
> paging should use the PAGER variable.  I only know about them because I
> always reset mine to 'less' instead of 'more'.
> ...

> I've also written some scripts which use these variables.  It's pretty
> easy.

So says the man who hasn't looked at the perldoc source... ;)

It actually isn't quite as simple as it might be: the lack of decent 
pipe support under Windows means I'm going to have to go through a 
temporary file, which is kind of ugly. Perhaps someone might want to 
look at tidying it all up later on. In the meantime, it works... :)


Cheers

Dave