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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: more/page and rsh/hostname symbolic links Date: 2 Jan 1997 14:42:25 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 44 Message-ID: <5aghgh$6fa@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5aa0qr$iik@newshost.lanl.gov> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33492 crs@lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby) wrote: > "more -c"). If anyone else is interested: > > # ln -s /usr/bin/more /usr/bin/page > > So the "more" code apparently does check to see if it was called as > "more" or as "page" and behaves accordingly. When I'd seen nothing > about page in the man pages, etc. I was a little worried until I > tried this. I have looked into the source code for "more", and there's not a single occurance of the word "page" there. So you must be telling about a different version of "more" here. "more -c" sets an internal variable called `top_scroll', and i can't see any other occurance where this variable gets set except of the option -c. Anyway, why don't you simply use a shell alias: alias page "more -c" # csh alias page="more -c" # sh ? > So, today, I got to thinking. The Suns that I've worked with had > a way to set things up so that one could rlogin to a machine or run > rsh on it by simply entering the name of the machine. This, too, > is an example of controlling the behavior of a program (in this case > rsh) by the name it is called and, again, uses symbolic links. This behaviour is documented. Whether you find this convenient or not is certainly a matter of personal preference. If your network has hosts named "ls" or "vi", i doubt you will appreciate it. :) And, many people seem to avoid the r commands these days, and prefer ssh & Co. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)