Re: more -d message

From: Pavil Natanovich (pasha582_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/27/03 

Date: 27 Apr 2003 07:56:07 -0700

belal@sco.com (Bela Lubkin) wrote in message news:<20030425163945.G27257@sco.com>...
> Dennis Mood wrote:
>
> > "Pavil Natanovich" <pasha582@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:e3b61087.0304241025.7e77cd52@posting.google.com...
> > > The standard more -d message is:
> > >
> > > Hit space to continue, Rubout to abort
> > >
> > > I changed this to "Hit space to continue, del to abort," as our
> > > keyboard keys are not labelled "rubout." Now I want to change the
> > > message again, but cannot remember how I did it.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know how to change the more -d message?
> >
> > Assuming you are using SCO Openserver 5.0.6a:
> > try setting an environment variable:
> >
> > LESS="-P Hit space to continue, del to abort"
> > export LESS
> >
> > this variable sets default options to pass to the 'more' command
> >
> > see "man more" for more information.
>
> That establishes a prompt which is wrong -- DEL does _not_ abort `less`.
> It just interrupts the current action and brings you back to a less
> prompt. Also, of course, individual users frequently change the
> interrupt key to ^C or something else.
>
> This is more correct and helpful:
>
> LESS="-PHit space to continue, 'q' to quit, 'h' for help "
>
> >Bela<

I don't have less. I'm running SCO Unix 3.2. If I recall correctly
the prompt is stored in some file.