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From: albani@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Lanfranco Albani)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: A question on "less"...
Message-ID: <825@cadlab.sublink.ORG>
Date: 7 May 91 08:38:01 GMT
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shawn@jpradley.jpr.com (Shawn Blair) writes:

>compiled less using ALL the new(er) libraries.  When I use less for my man
>paging I get caret (^) symbols in place of underlines and bolds.  My consoles
>is the basic ansi console.  Anybody have any ideas?  Does anybody else
>experience this same thing?  

less uses an enviroment variable LESS.  You must use the flag "u" (lowercase
U) to avoid the "invasion of the carets" on your screen.
BTW there are a LOT of flags... :-)

Bye, Lanfranco (from Italy)

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