▲ 142 ▼ What feature/utility/app are you surprised is not installed by default in Linux distributions? (lemdro.id) submitted 3 years ago by mfat@lemdro.id to c/linux@lemmy.ml 200 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) I think more was a DOS tool permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago It was, but it was (and still is) a Unix tool. I believe POSIX still requires that more be provided (even if it's just less secretly). The original Unix more could only go forwards. Someone wanted to make something like more that could go both forwards and backwards, so he called it less as a joke (because "less" is a "backwards more"). For the past 40 years, everyone's realized that less is much better than the original more, so nobody uses the original any more. (MSDOS took the idea of "more" before "less" caught on). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago It was, but it was (and still is) a Unix tool. I believe POSIX still requires that more be provided (even if it's just less secretly). The original Unix more could only go forwards. Someone wanted to make something like more that could go both forwards and backwards, so he called it less as a joke (because "less" is a "backwards more"). For the past 40 years, everyone's realized that less is much better than the original more, so nobody uses the original any more. (MSDOS took the idea of "more" before "less" caught on). permalink fedilink source parent