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From: liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;)
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Subject: Re: less vs man under a/ux
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Date: 11 Jan 91 12:49:16 GMT
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In <37824@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:

>I've compiled the EXACT same version of less (ver.5) to run under all of SysV
>on my 3B1 systems, HP-UX 3.* and 7.*, A/UX 2.0, etc. and it works PERFECTLY
>with "man" as $PAGER on all of them.  Note, though, I had to "fix" termcap and
>terminfo under A/UX for proper VT100/VT200 support (since most my usage is
>over the serial or net ports since I dislike the glare on the Apple monitors),
>but no change was required to use the Mac's console.

I'd be interested in the termcap and terminfo fixes for proper VT100/VT200 
support (could these make it into A/UX 2.0.1 please someone?).

When you compiled less did you do it for "A/UX 2.0 as a SysV system" or "A/UX 
2.0 as a BSD system" (or even "A/UX 2.0 as a POSIX system)? What A/UX specific 
#defines and libraries do you instinctively reach for when you first try 
compiling a new system?
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