#more actually allowed going backwards from the days of 4.3BSD onwards, about 40 years ago.
On AT&T #Unix System 5, the pager was called pg, by the way. Not everyone made puns on the name of more. (-:
#Debian provides pun-free 'pager' as a generic name, too. And 'sensible-pager', just in case you thought that 'pager' was not sensible enough.





