query: Too much text

But

open PAGER, ($ENV{PAGER} || 'less') . '|' or die "blah $!";
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Doesn't open a pipe to the pager, least not on my system? (main::PAGER only opened for input), Am I missing something? But thanks for leading me to:

open PAGER, ('|' . $ENV{PAGER}) or die "blah $!";
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RE: query: Too much text by tye (Sage) on Aug 02, 2000 at 19:32 UTC
Correct. And that should be `$ENV{PAGER} \|\| 'more'` [download] so that it works on Windows (contrary to the original proposers claim) and on many other systems that may not have 'less' installed.	[reply] [d/l]