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- From: David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>
- To: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit at cox dot net>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 08:56:14 +0000
- Subject: Link for MORE
- References: <3C939FF6.2040702@cox.net>
On Saturday 16 Mar 02, David A. Cobb writes:
> I'm finding that common tasks like configure sometimes depend on
> "more", which we don't have. I can make it work by "ln -s /usr/bin/more
> /usr/bin/less". I suppose the related info files should likely be done
> also(?).
> I propose putting that link in the delivery tarball (wherever less is).
I suppose you could do this but the purists would say you should do
export PAGER /bin/less
instead. If that's not enough to fix configure, then your configure
script is probably broken.
(Having said that, I use "alias more=less" but that's for my personal
memory, not a configure script.)
David