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It was, but it was (and still is) a Unix tool. I believe POSIX still requires that
morebe provided (even if it's justlesssecretly).The original Unix
morecould only go forwards. Someone wanted to make something likemorethat could go both forwards and backwards, so he called itlessas a joke (because "less" is a "backwards more"). For the past 40 years, everyone's realized thatlessis much better than the originalmore, so nobody uses the original any more.(MSDOS took the idea of "more" before "less" caught on).