From: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: getting a modern `more`
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:30:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F11BBB4.4030602@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201201140039.17340.vapier@gentoo.org>
Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 13 January 2012 22:17:41 Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> That said, if you want to spend the effort to update and maintain a
>> program that duplicates functionality, than that's up to you. I just
>> think you may want to be careful of NIH thinking.
>
> the work was already been done, and technically speaking, one could say that
> everything other than "more" is NIH thinking ;). can you name a pager that is
> older than "more" ?
No, of course not. Please understand that I have no connection with the
'less' project. I don't know why it forked, but it too has been around
since at least 1995 and appears to pre-date Linux (and Util-Linux).
The website goes back to 'Version 290' in 1995.
I've been working with computers since before Unix (and Linux) and know
a little computing history. Before 'Glass TTYs' there were paper
terminals and I suspect 'more' was designed with those paper terminals
in mind. 'Less' appears to have been designed with terminals such as
the VT100 in mind. Sometimes it's beneficial to redesign a program when
something new comes along rather than patch an old design.
-- Bruce
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2012-01-13 23:12 ` getting a modern `more` Bruce Dubbs
2012-01-14 0:01 ` Sami Kerola
2012-01-14 0:22 ` Bruce Dubbs
2012-01-14 1:08 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-14 3:17 ` Bruce Dubbs
2012-01-14 5:39 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-14 17:30 ` Bruce Dubbs [this message]
2012-01-14 21:26 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-14 22:19 ` Bruce Dubbs
2012-01-14 22:35 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-14 22:47 ` Bruce Dubbs
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