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doc: Remove claim that "more" can't move backward #501

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  1. doc: Remove claim that "more" can't move backward 

    As suggested[1] by a Debian user in 2012.

POSIX specifies[2] that "more" can scroll backward.

util-linux's "more", added in version 1.6[3], was copied from
system-0.98.tar.Z[4], where "CREDITS" says it came from BSD Net/2.
"more" source code was released in 386BSD version 0.1, upon which
NetBSD and FreeBSD were later based.

Both the Net/2-based version in system-0.98.tar.Z and 386BSD 0.1's
"more"[5] supported [N]b or [N]^B to skip backward N pages.  In other
words, apparently all versions of "more" since its first source code
releases allow backward movement.

[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=655926
[2]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition/utilities/more.html#tag_20_81_13_03
[3]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/tree/Notes.pre1995?id=6dbe3af94#n158
[4]: https://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/tools/system-0.98.tar.Z
[5]: https://github.com/386bsd/386bsd/blob/0.1/usr/src/usr.bin/more/more.c#L1019
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