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From: charles@hpcvca.HP.COM (Charles Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: less5 - 2 fixes and an enhancement...
Message-ID: <4300004@hpcvca.HP.COM>
Date: 29 Sep 88 22:18:00 GMT
References: <1396@zen.co.uk>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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> Could I suggest that it would be appropriate to have the author gather
> all of the patches, evaluate them, and either release a new version or a
> single patch file which will apply all of the valid fixes?
>	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)

At least some of these fixes have been sent to the author several
times over the past 3 years.  It WOULD be appropriate for the author to
implement the fixes.  So far he has not.

In particular the incorrect behaviour of less with HP terminals has
been reported several times.  Because this has to be patched each time
the sources come out, I stopped upgrading less at this site back in
1986 with version 61.

So as long as less continues to come out with the same compatibility
problem, others will continue to supply patches.  To the author of
these patches I say "Thank you".

To the author of less I say "Thank you for writing it".  But I am a
little frustrated that these fixes are repeatedly ignored.  When I
sent the same set of fixes (independently created 2 years ago) my mail
was not even agknowledged.
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	Charles Brown		charles%hpcvca@hplabs.hp.com
	Not representing my employer.