8/15/2024 PM Publish

[Taojunshen]

Prior to this change, the documentation for the built-in help function in about_Built-in_Functions incorrectly stated that PowerShell always uses more for the pager on Windows and the PAGER environment variable on non-Windows systems.

This change:

• Clarifies that PowerShell uses a default pager for both Windows (more) and non-Windows (less) systems.
• Clarifies that when the PAGER environment variable is defined, PowerShell uses that command instead of the default pager on both Windows and non-Windows systems.
• Fixes AB#297346
• Resolves Incomplete and potentially confusing information about the pager program used by the help function #11332

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