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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: 'LESS' for MSDOS ?
Message-ID: <6909@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 11:29:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: steinmet.6909
Posted: Wed Aug  5 11:29:03 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Aug-87 01:44:43 EDT
References: <310@petro.UUCP> <1021@mtunb.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
Lines: 25
Keywords: less MSDOS less utility
Xref: mnetor comp.sys.ibm.pc:6391 comp.os.minix:1394

In article <1021@mtunb.ATT.COM> dmt@mtunb.UUCP (Dave Tutelman) writes:
|In article <310@petro.UUCP> cmanis@petro.UUCP writes:
|>
|>.
|>Does someone out there have 'LESS' working on MSDOS, or is someone
|>working on it for DOS ? ?   If so, please send me a note.
|>
|After I tried "LIST" (shareware by Vernon D. Buerg) I threw away
|my MSDOS LESS.  LIST does everything LESS does, and (1) doesn't
|have nearly as many bugs, (2) gives MUCH faster response, (3) uses
|the cursor keys to navigate the file.
|
|I have version 5.91 (1986).  I remember a dangerously buggy version
|circa 1984, but the recent LIST is great.

I have LIST61, and find it highly useful... but... it has a modem
control (Alt-E) to toggle from 25 to 43 line mode on EGA, and when it
resets to 25 line mode it seems to actually set 24 line mode. I use it
but always reset the comsole by "MODEM CO80" after running LIST.
Obviously the older version didn't have the feature or the bug, and no,
I haven't tried it on a real IBM EGA.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
  {chinet | philabs | sesimo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me