Roland Mainz wrote: > Hugh McIntyre wrote: > > Roland Mainz wrote: [snip] > I have two major problems with "/usr/bin/more": > 1. "cursor keys" are not useable > 2. /usr/bin/more is really a _bad_ choice for users in multibyte > locales, e.g. ja_JP.PCK or ja_JP.UTF-8 for which Solaris ships lots of > manual pages by default. The documentation folks (CC:'ing Michelle Olson > <michelle.olson at sun.com> for that...) did lots of work with the > translation and maintaince of the japanese manual pages are then > _punished_ (together with their japanese users) by a viewer (e.g. > /usr/bin/man defaults to /usr/bin/more) which doesn't work properly in > such locales. In theory there is /usr/xpg4/bin/more as alternative but > that misses [1] (and this choice improves the interoperabilty between > Solaris and Linux, too).
Erm, I forgot one comment: I know that it may be possible to enhance /usr/bin/more and /usr/xpg4/bin/more (migrating them both into one version may not be possible since there may be concerns about backwards-compatibilty (which may be debateable in this case but that discussion+coding would take much longer than this case...)) but I'd like to get a solution for this _usuablity_ issue in a quick&&easy way, including the option for a backport to Solaris 10 (e.g. changing the "*/more"-tools needs more work and is IMO more risky than just changing some environment variables which can always be changed by the adminstrator on demand). ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
