[TUHS] pre-more pager?

[Steve Nickolas]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, Arthur Krewat wrote:

> On 11/9/2017 11:19 AM, Norman Wilson wrote:
>> It buffered text internally to allow backing up a few
>> pages, so it was possible to back up even when input
>> didn't come from a file (something I'm not sure the
>> more of the time could do).
>> 
> It would be nice if that was the case for more and stdin.
>
> more on Solaris 11.3 doesn't allow backup on stdin, nor on a recent version 
> of Debian Linux I checked.
>
> I remember a while back that when man spawned more, it was stdin and you 
> couldn't back up on that either. Very annoying.

Isn't that the whole reason "less" exists?

-uso.