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From: eap@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Eric Pearce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Lines per Window
Message-ID: <28713@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 16 Mar 89 00:33:50 GMT
References: <262@ai.etl.army.mil>
Reply-To: eap@bu-it.bu.edu (Eric Pearce)
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In article <262@ai.etl.army.mil> richr@ai.etl.army.mil. (Richard Rosenthal) says:
>How does "more" program know how many lines in 4Sight window?
>
>Apparently not from termcap ...  iris-ansii says 40 lines, but,
>if I shrink the window to only 4 or 5 lines more still works
>fine.
>
>I want to make "less" work like this, too.  "less" seems to only
>use termcap.

  I have a version of less (version 61) and it has support for both
  termcap + terminfo and other differences between BSD and SYSV.  I had
  better luck compiling it with the SYSV defines (on an IRIS personal).
  You should be able to get it at any decent archive site, if not, I can
  mail it to you.

 -e

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