Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Solaris compiling problem

[T.E.Dickey]

> I seriously doubt that more uses the curses screen library for screen
> optimization.  Rather, it probably uses termcap to get terminal
> capabilities and then sends the escape sequences directly to
> the terminal.  In fact, the primary reason I wrote MOST was that the
> screen update of more/less was so poor, that I had to write an
> alternative.
I expect that's correct on a BSD system; on Solaris, to be precise, it uses
the terminfo (curses) library.  But I agree that 'more' is getting a little
old.  However, 'less' seems to be keeping up.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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