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From: net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Wanted: newer versions of less and screen
Message-ID: <657@tub.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 10:07:47 GMT
References: <619@n8emr.UUCP>
Reply-To: net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann)
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <619@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes:
> I have version 73 of less and version 1.1i of screen.  I am looking for
> updates to these.  A few months ago a beta version of less was
> announced - i volenteered to help out but never got a response.  I was
> sent some mods to screen to add cut and paste, but when I tried to
> extract these mods from the version of screen that i was sent and then
> trying to add them to the version of screen that i am using, something
> was lost in the translation, resulting in a non functioning pgm.

I do have a new version of screen; it has been in use on our local
machine since a couple of months (the main improvement is that you
can `detach' a screen session from your terminal and resume it
on a different terminal or in a later login session).  However,
so far I haven't got the time to prepare a new release (update the
man page, etc.).

Regarding the modifications and enhancements I have received:  since I
don't have the time to evaluate and incorporate into screen the large
number of 'diffs' I have received, I would only include a few of them
and only fixes that enhance the portability of screen (such as load
averages for Sun's).

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Oliver Laumann              net@TUB.BITNET              net@tub.UUCP