Pagers

I won't give you a history of documentation viewers (aka pagers) on *nix systems, other than to say that there used to be pg and more. Then along came less, which was a lot like more, but way better.  Apparently there is a play on words there, so maybe it is true that less is more.

Anyway, I have long followed the advice to use the less pager where it is available.  I don't follow that advice strictly any more.  I now use most. From the most home page:

"MOST is a powerful paging program for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, and win32 systems. Unlike other well-known paging programs most supports multiple windows and can scroll left and right. Why settle for less?"

Indeed.