Rene Rivera wrote:
Ah, seems like a very bad idea to me. I think writing code that is so platform dependent and is commonly known to be available as the separate utility "more" will create more problems than it would solve.
I completely agree.
A better idea is to add that functionality to the configure script itself. Just have it figure out a paging program to use to send such output to.
Does it really a problem that more is unavailable? In other words, why introduce more complexity when it's enough to instruct people to use more or their favorite pager?
Personally I wouldn't add such a thing at all. I would think you would be hard pressed to find Unix users who don't know how to use "more", or use a terminal/shell window with a scroll bar.
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