Linux person uses (tries to use) Mac OS X

[Robert Brockway]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:

> For anyone who intends to work at the operating system of a Mac, be aware
> that some Mac keyboards do not include the '|' (ie, pipe-to} symbol.

Wow. Removing a character that is standard on QWERTY keyboards is just 
going to cause issues.  The character would have originally been chosen 
due to its prevalance.

> The ls command now has an option ls -more to make up for the common
> command sequence ls | more.

I hope it reads $PAGER.

And of course this will completely fail to help me any of the other 500 
times I use a | each day :)

Thanks for heads up Peter.

Cheers,

Rob

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