18 Jun
2020
18 Jun
'20
6:49 p.m.
Hello everyone,
now that I'm subscribed to this list as well, first let me say thank you
for all the info on pg(1) you've provided. I really wasn't expecting
that much.
The only thing I'm able to add here is that, shortly after I had sent my
question to Warren, I discovered that the Rationale section in the POSIX
description of more(1) explicitly says:
The more utility, available in BSD and BSD-derived systems, was chosen
as the prototype for the POSIX file display program since it is more
widely available than either the public-domain program less or than
pg, a pager provided in System V.[1]
This also strongly suggests that pg(1) never made it into POSIX. Well,
if I'm not mistaken, that quote actually says that pg(1) didn't make it
into POSIX.
Michael
[1]
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/more.html#tag_20…