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From: geoff@edm.uucp (Geoff Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Has anyone got less to work under AIX-3.1 on a RS6000 ?
Message-ID: <1990Nov27.062427.13301@edm.uucp>
Date: 27 Nov 90 06:24:27 GMT
References: <MICHAEL.90Nov26153750@athene.uni-paderborn.de>
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Organization: Unexsys Systems inc.
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From article <MICHAEL.90Nov26153750@athene.uni-paderborn.de>, by michael@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Schmidt):
> 
> I just tried to install the more replacement less on our rs6000. All
> comilations went fine, I got a working executable. But, ... the
> behaviour is strange.
> 
> When viewing a file you have to type in FOUR chracters, before the
> first is honored. And then all behaves like a queue. After typing in
> the fifth character the second gets handles and so on. Giving it a 'q'
> to quit and three more characters less will quit and the three
> characters show up on the command line.
> 
> Looks pretty wierd to me. Any ideas?

	As a guess you are using the ioctls for BSD style tty driver while
the active driver is the POSIX driver. It sounds like raw mode isn't being
set up right. check the return values for any ioctl calls.


Geoff Coleman
Unexsys Systems
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