Operation of more command

[Michael D. Setzer II]

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On 27 Apr 2008 at 12:39, Luciano Rocha wrote:

Date sent:	Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:39:40 +0100
From:	Luciano Rocha <strange at nsk.no-ip.org>
To:	busybox at busybox.net
Subject:	Re: Operation of more command

> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 08:25:16PM +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
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> > I'm the current developer of g4l, and it has used busybox before I took over, 
> > and has been excellent. I have just noticed one issue involving the more 
> > command. The g4l project is a bootcd for disk imaging, and doesn't make a 
> > lot of use of the more command, but there are times when checking things 
> > would make more a nice option, but both the busybox and even the one 
> > from Fedora 8 seem to work just like cat. In looking at the code of the 
> > more.c, it appear it acts like cat under some situations. It works fine when 
> > run under the Fedora environment, but from the cd, it does the same with a 
> > local terminal or if telnetted in. So, not sure what would be missing that 
> > would case it to act in this manner.
> 
> What about busybox's less? Does it work better?

Tried adding less to the busybox build, and it does the same thing.
In looking  at the code, it does a return bb_cat(argv) in code.

It might be something missing, but if so, I don't know what it is.


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