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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Diff between more and less Post 302432998 by Scott on Monday 28th of June 2010 08:11:16 AM
Old 06-28-2010
The less man page goes a long way to answering your question (more or less!):

Code:
DESCRIPTION
       Less  is  a  program similar to more (1), but which allows backward movement in the file as well as forward movement.  Also, less does not have to read
       the entire input file before starting, so with large input files it starts up faster than text editors like vi (1).  Less uses termcap (or terminfo  on
       some  systems),  so  it can run on a variety of terminals.  There is even limited support for hardcopy terminals.  (On a hardcopy terminal, lines which
       should be printed at the top of the screen are prefixed with a caret.)

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

ttytype

TTYTYPE(5)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							TTYTYPE(5)

NAME

       ttytype - terminal device to default terminal type mapping

DESCRIPTION

       The  /etc/ttytype  file	associates termcap(5)/terminfo(5) terminal type names with tty lines.  Each line consists of a terminal type, fol-
       lowed by whitespace, followed by a tty name (a device name without the /dev/) prefix.

       This association is used by the program tset(1) to set the environment variable TERM to the default terminal name for  the  user's  current
       tty.

       This  facility was designed for a traditional time-sharing environment featuring character-cell terminals hardwired to a UNIX minicomputer.
       It is little used on modern workstation and personal UNIX systems.

FILES

       /etc/ttytype
	      the tty definitions file.

EXAMPLE

       A typical /etc/ttytype is:

	      con80x25 tty1
	      vt320 ttys0

SEE ALSO

       termcap(5), terminfo(5), agetty(8), mingetty(8)

Linux								    2012-12-31								TTYTYPE(5)
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