From: RYAN, SHANE(DUBLIN) (RYANSH at domain educ.irlgov.ie)
Date: Thu 23 Aug 2001 - 15:34:18 IST
how long did it take you to think up that one?!
if most is so good then why did less become
more (no pun) popular?
are the most binaries or source available for
linux still? (ive no net connection here only
email otherwise google would be called on..)
hth,
shane
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From: Chris Higgins
To: silvan delaney
Cc: Wynne, Conor; RYAN, SHANE(DUBLIN); Irish Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Re:
Date: 23 August 2001 15:14
> i lost u there...
"more" was the original command
After a while, people came up with a 'better' version, and
called it 'less'...
After another while, some more people came up with another version
and called it 'most'.
'most' has died off, and I've only seen it recently on VMS...
when we did have 'less', 'more' and 'most' my statement held true.
less is more (than more) but neither has as much features as 'most'
Hand's up all those who've seen 'most' installed on a machine, and
used it ?
I used prefer most to more and less, and I prefer more to less,
but tend to use less more than I use more because more than
likely your distro will have less installed rather than more.[1]
[1] Now you've got a reason to complain about geek jokes ;)
> Silvan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Higgins" <chris.higgins at domain horizon.ie>
> To: "Wynne, Conor" <Conor.Wynne at domain compaq.com>
> Cc: "'RYAN, SHANE(DUBLIN)'" <RYANSH at domain educ.irlgov.ie>; "Irish Linux User
> Group" <ilug at domain linux.ie>; "silvan delaney" <silvandelaney at domain eircom.net>
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 2:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] Re:
>
>
> : > Ah yes, of course it is.
> : >
> : > I didn't know : ls | less
> : > I usually use more
> :
> : less is more, but not as good as most
> :
> : >
> : > Nice 1.
> : > CW
> : >
> : > >GUI is the "windows" environment. I think it stands for generic
user
> : > >interface. Any application that has mouse "clicky bits" is a GUI.
A
> : > better
> : >
> : > GUI, isn't that Graphical User Interface?? whereas UI is just
User
> : > Interface....
> : >
> : > another tip, if you have a directory with too many files in it and
are
> : > at the command line ls | less will let you scroll down the list
> : > using the up and down arrow keys.
> : >
> : > l8r,
> : > shane
> : >
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