less problem

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Sun May 28 08:24:00 GMT 2000


--- Shiv Kumar <vihs@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> This is my first posting to this list. So excuse me if this question has been
> answered a milliion times before.
> 
> Whenever I use less it complains that the terminal is not fully functional.
> 
>      [/home:$] set | less
>      WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
>      -  (press RETURN)
>      [/home:$] echo $TERM
>      win32
>      [/home:$]
> 
> Any clues why?

Why do you set the TERM to win32?  The default is cygwin which is more or less
an emulation of linux with a few modifications.

Regards,

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