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From: mer6g@fuggles.acc.Virginia.EDU (Marc Rouleau)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Changing Prompt with LESS?
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Date: 23 Apr 91 12:15:37 GMT
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In order to change the text of the LESS prompt you need to
be able to specify something in angle-brackets.  For example:

    set LESS=<--more-->
or
    less -P<--more--> myfile

Of course, these don't work because DOS interprets the '<'
as an indicator of input redirection.  And double-quoting
doesn't work because DOS doesn't strip them off before passing
arguments to programs or putting values in the environment.

Am I missing any easy way to do this?

If not, might the maintainer of DOS LESS consider teaching
it to ignore double-quotes in its arguments and in the LESS
environment variable?

    -- Marc Rouleau