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From: mlord@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Less for IBM/PC wanted
Message-ID: <4038@bnr-rsc.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 91 16:46:52 GMT
References: <1991Feb14.214100.5924@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au> <4032@bnr-rsc.UUCP> <3525@d75.UUCP>
Reply-To: mlord@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Mark Lord)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <3525@d75.UUCP> woan@peyote.cactus.org writes:
>>In article <... > ccandrew@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Andrew Vellnagel) writes:
>>>
>>>	Could someone please point me in the direction of finding a good
>>>PD/Shareware version of LESS for an IBM/PC.
>
>Of course the real question is why bother when LIST (by Vern Buerg
>sp?) is so much better and seems to be smaller if the ZIP file sizes
>are an indicator. Also available from the same place...

There are numerous personal reasons why someone might prefer LESS over LIST,
and vica-versa.  It is not the sort of debate we need to go into here.

The reason for the vast difference in ZIP file sizes is that most versions
of LESS include FULL source code, unlike LIST, which does not include source.

The LESS that I use, with HLP and MAN files, fits into a 24K archive if the
source is omitted.  The executable is just over 21K after LZEXE'd, or about
57K without LZEXE.
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