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From: gsm@mendelson.com (Geoffrey S. Mendelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: A question on "less"...
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.025308.23488@mendelson.com>
Date: 26 Apr 91 02:53:08 GMT
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marke@richs118.cpg.trs.reuter.com (Mark Ellis) asks:
>
>"less" on Coherent seems to require one to hit the return key after
>every command, unlike what I am used to on other OS's using "less".  Am
>I missing something?
>
That's what happens if you try to port the UNIX version of less to Coherent.
RAW tty handling is a mixture of BSD and AT&T (system V). If you get a 
copy of less that has already been ported (I got mine from mwcbbs) it works
just fine.


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