README for "more" Written by Sal Valente <svalente@mit.edu> $Date: 1995/11/29 23:53:43 $ This is the "more" pager from old versions of BSD, up to BSD 4.3. According to the the source file, it was SCCS version 5.19, originally written in 1980, last modified at Berkely in 1988. This particular version has been floating around the Linux ftp sites for the past few years, and has probably been slightly modified by a cast of thousands. Anyway, I added the ability to go backwards when reading from a pipe, because it's a useful feature. (This feature exists in the popular "less" pager. But I never really liked "less", mostly because it doesn't handle the "-c" option as well as "more" does.) There are probably some other cool features that "more" does not have and that other pager do have. If you can think of one of these features, please add it and send me a patch. :-) Building "more" --------------- You must use an ANSI compiler. You must have a BSD compatible "termcap" library. If you do not have one, you can use the either GNU ncurses or termcap library, which are available at ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/. You must have the POSIX regexp() functions in your C library. If you do not have these, you can use the either GNU rx or regex library. You need to have the POSIX termios functions in your C library. magic.c is very non-portable. If you can't figure out how to get it to compile on your system, just comment out the whole function. ("more" uses this function to determine if a file is text or binary. It's a nice feature, but is not absolutely necessary.) You will probably hate where the Makefile installs stuff. If you change where "more.help" is installed, remember to change pathnames.h as well. Have a nice day. Sal Valente <svalente@mit.edu> http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/svalente/home.html
