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[snazz]

I think that more is symlinked to less on your system, not the other way around. On my machine (Arch), they're separate:

  jack@jackdesktop ~ [1]> bash -c "cksum `which less` `which more`"
  3407085100 179664 /usr/bin/less
  110370394 38816 /usr/bin/more
  jack@jackdesktop ~>

[_n_b_ → snazz]

OK, now you've prompted me to do proper research:

Not a symlink (or even a hard link) on my OS X laptop, but the same executable.

On my OpenBSD systems, they're hard links.

On my Ubuntu system, they're separate.

[snazz → _n_b_]

Interesting! I wonder what the historical reason is for all of those different permutations.