Re: [Lynx-dev] More or less (was Re: Where does -dump output go?)

[Travis Siegel]

Apparently, some unix variants still sim-link more to less (or vice 
versa), but as you mentioned, ubuntu isn't one of those.  For what it's 
worth though, modern day implementations of more pretty much act like 
less anyway, so the arguments for using one over the other are pretty 
much a wash in modern os implementations.

However, to make things more complicated, apparently there's another 
pager called most that adds to the confusion. :)

For what it's worth, I've never used less as a pager, and can still 
scroll forward/backward/search/open editors and all the other things 
less proponents claim more doesn't do, which has always puzzled me, 
since I have always been able to do those things except on particular 
obstinate versions of some oses, but I believe any reasonably new 
implementation of more can easily act as a stand-in for less, so it's 
all kind of moot.
On 2/12/2021 12:56 PM, Ian Collier wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 06:25:05PM -0500, Travis Siegel wrote:
> > more instead of cat, and to those purists that claim less is better, let me
> > remind those that less and more are the same executable on most linux
> > systems
> This is off-topic, but: no they are not.  "Most" Linux systems?
>
> Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL and Fedora all have 'more' as part of the util-linux
> package and 'less' as its own package.  The 'more' binary is much smaller
> than the 'less' binary.
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 190544 Jan 29  2020 /bin/less
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  45464 May 20  2020 /bin/more
>
> imc
>
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