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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Less and More Post 3596 by Andy Hibbins on Friday 6th of July 2001 05:22:34 PM

07-06-2001

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Hi,

As you know "less" and "more" both allow you to view a file, however "less" has some advantages.

The main advantage of using "less" is that you can reverse scroll through a file and you don't need to wait for "less" to load the whole file into memory before you can start to view it.

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difftime

difftime(3C)						   Standard C Library Functions 					      difftime(3C)

NAME

       difftime - computes the difference between two calendar times

SYNOPSIS

       #include <time.h>

       double difftime(time_t time1, time_t time0);

DESCRIPTION

       The difftime() function computes the difference between two  calendar times.

RETURN VALUES

       The difftime() functions returns the difference (time1-time0) expressed in seconds as a double.

USAGE

       The difftime() function is provided because there are no general arithmetic properties defined for type time_t.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |MT-Safe			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ctime(3C), attributes(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.10							    24 Jul 2002 						      difftime(3C)