Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bcars8!bnrgate!bwdls58!mlord From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Help with Less123x Keywords: less pager more Message-ID: <3781@bwdls58.UUCP> Date: 17 Jul 90 13:18:20 GMT References: Sender: mlord@bwdls58.UUCP Reply-To: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) Distribution: comp Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 22 In article lee@chsun1.uchicago.edu (dwight lee) writes: >I downloaded two different copies of Less123x, one from SIMTEL20 and one from >grape.clarkson.etc. Both of them behave identically. I was unable to get the >LESS.EXE file to display any files indicated on the command line: ... >(Hey, is it possible that the files on SIMTEL and grape are both corrupt?) Hmm.. While I have not seen this problem, I do have another complaint about these versions of LESS.. they appear to have been linked with the buggy video library from TC 2.0 (as opposed to TC 2.01). As a result, I couldn't get them to work reliably with more than 25 lines on the screen. The solution? I acquired the source code (from comp.sources.something?) and re-ported it to MSDOS (special handling of newline sequences, regexp stuff..), and then linked it against my patched TC 2.0 library. Works fine now. Perhaps the problems Dwight experienced are related.. -- ___Mark S. Lord__________________________________________ | ..uunet!bnrgate!bmerh614!mlord | Climb Free Or Die (NH) | | ..uunet!bnrgate!mlord%bmerh614 | Personal views only. | |________________________________|________________________|