>if someone were lacking less and more they can just set PAGER to >cat a viola, lots of scrolling.
With viola you get lots of screeching! :-) You can even have a PAGER-less run find its own hierarchy of less/more/cat for them, et voila, perfect script! One more optimization it needs, it should check to see that stdout is a tty and only run the pager if it is, else cat. ("man foo >foofile") Once upon a time in a career far away we had a shell-script man, before it got rewritten in C to handle running nroff if necessary, and handling remote server man pages and the like. It did the usual catman stuff, too. (The network wasn't tcp/ip, though, it was DNET. Extra points for ever having heard of it, or naming the country of origin.) -- Jim _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox