Link for MORE
Charles Wilson
cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Sun Mar 17 08:43:00 GMT 2002
Back to the original subject, 'more', what if we actually provided a
more.exe binary? more != less, since they DO behave differently. If
somebody wanted to adapt the attached source (taken from the util-linux
distribution) so that it builds within cygutils, I'd add it to the
package. See /usr/doc/cygutils-1.0.0/HOW-TO-CONTRIBUTE
--Chuck
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 11:08:17AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 02:56:30AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>>>
>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
>>>>>Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 2:39 AM
>>>>>
>>>>>Actually, I don't think there is any reason to have a default
>>>>>/etc/profile for ash. I think it is really only useful for bash. The
>>>>>current /etc/profile seems to assume that it is running under bash.
>>>>>However, it really should be more ash friendly since ash reads
>>>>>/etc/profile. Either that or maybe ash should read something other
>>>>>than /etc/profile.
>>>>>
>>>>Well, my interest begins and ends with the file creation being moved
>>>>somewhere sensible. Simply running setup should not create
>>>>/etc/profile any more than installing sed.
>>>>
>>>Yep. Agreed.
>>>
>>>
>>I'm not sure I agree. It doesn't matter what creates it, it needs
>>created. Go back before DJ created the patch to setup and take a look
>>at the mail list. It's a needed item, setup does it now. It's a
>>living method. It needs a modification, so just modify it. I would;
>>but, Robert, you've it already in your sandbox and it's such a simple
>>change.
>>
>
> What are you not agreeing to? No one is denying that the /etc/profile
> files themselves need to be created.
>
> If you're referring to adding an alias for 'more', then we're not
> talking about that. It's not the correct solution anyway. Adding an
> alias in /etc/profile doesn't help tcsh users and it breaks ash usage
> without the addition of extra tests. Which, coincidentally, brings us
> back to the issue of what should be in /etc/profile.
>
> cgf
>
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