Huh. Yeah, no, they're still there. Okay. I have no idea what I meant. Could have sworn somebody axed ptrace, though. My main point was that if you have a supe

Huh. Yeah, no, they're still there. Okay. I have no idea what I meant. Could have sworn somebody axed ptrace, though. My main point was that if you have a superior utility that doesn't break compatability, like less, than why ship the original? Less is better than more, and it doesn't break compatability in any way I know. That's why setting it as $PAGER works. The fact is, a lot of superior tooling is backwards compatible. PCRE (although superior is up for debate) is fairly compatible with extended regex, GNU tar is compatible with posix tar, both syntactically, and semantically with the aid of -H. Heck, it's compatible with the v7 archive format.