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From: mark@hsi86.hsi.com (Mark Sicignano)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need to make "less" do a particular thing "right"
Message-ID: <3142@hsi86.hsi.com>
Date: 21 Feb 91 18:21:22 GMT
References: <15903.27c29273@levels.sait.edu.au> <6435@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <1991Feb20.210427.26089@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <6451@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: mark@hsi.com (Mark Sicignano)
Organization: 3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford, CT.
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In article <6451@idunno.Princeton.EDU> pfalstad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Falstad) writes:
|phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) wrote:
|>I want to make the "less" command NOT switch over to the alterate screen.
|>I did RTFM and could not find this.
|
|I hate this behavior too.  I don't think the FM tells how to get rid of
|it; I checked the source and it looks like there's no option for it.
|Here's the hack I use; works great for me.
|...

At least on our system, we can do a "man xterm" and look at what it
has to say for titeInhibit (class TiteInhibit).

-mark
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Mark Sicignano                                  ...!uunet!hsi!mark
3M Health Information Systems                   mark@hsi.com