From: "Luke A. Kanies" <luke@...>
Date: 2003-12-17T23:37:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Dave Thomas wrote:

>
> 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... :)

Hey now, I think I included an "on Unix" disclaimer somewhere, although it
may have been in a different email. :)  Given my total lack of Windows
programming experience, I would not claim to understand those
complexities.

I agree that temp files are ugly; it always amazes me that so many
programmers have not discovered this.

Luke

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