problems with less

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Tue May 9 09:08:00 GMT 2000


On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 03:38:21PM +0100, John S Cooper wrote:
>
>I think the display problems I was having with `less' disappear when I do the
>following:
>
>  1. Set TERM=cygwin rather than TERM=linux.
>  2. Don't use `less -r' as an alias for `less'.
>
>Perhaps this is something for a README/FAQ?

So, if you don't go out of your way to use less in a non-standard way, it
works fine.  That doesn't seem like FAQ material to me.

cgf

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