From: Derek Lewis <lewisd@...00f.net>
Date: 2003-12-18T05:34:58+09:00
Subject: Re: paging (was Newbie questions)

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Luke A. Kanies wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Derek Lewis wrote:
>
> >
> > Looks good, but you might want to throw "/usr/bin/pager" after the ENV.
>
> Well, that's only set on some portion of Linux boxes.  As you mentioned
> earlier, there isn't really a standard, unless it could be said that the
> standard is to use 'more' (which is what nearly all commercial Unices do).
> Linux is nice here in that it's doing things that are better, but it
> should definitely be understood that these things won't work on non-linux
> boxes (and won't actually work on all linux machines).

What's important to me (and maybe I'm way off target here :) is not that
it works everywhere, but that it works where it can, and doesn't *break*
anything elsewhere.

ie.  If it can find /usr/bin/pager, great, because that's probably what
the user expects.  If it can't find it, then just carry on trying to find
something else.

Derek Lewis

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