gudeman@arizona.edu (David Gudeman) (04/25/88)
For those who might be wondering, LESS is a screen pager, like MORE in
MSDOS. It is actually patterned after the Berkely Unix more, meaning
that:
-- you can specify multiple files and go from one to another (of
dubious value)
-- you can specify the input files with command-line arguments (so you
don't always have to re-direct stdin)
-- you can quit by typing "q" (OK, OK, I just think it's inelegant to
have to type control-C to quit in MSDOS)
-- if you start viewing a file and decide to edit it, you can start up
an editor from less (convenient)
-- you can go to a given place (by line number or percent of the file)
-- you can search for a string (how do you DOSers live without that?)
-- you can back up in a file (a *really* nice feature)
and it has a lot of nifty display options that most people ignore.
David Gudeman
Department of Computer Science
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