On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > > > > it is nice property of "less" (as opposed to "more") that it filters > > out all non-ascii charachters (changes them to some ^... printable > > sequencies). As a result, it is not possible to trash the console by > > doing "less <some binary file>" or, more important - if something > > bad happened and you created a file(s) with some non-ascii charachters, > > "ls" will trash the console while "ls | less" will show you everything > > and let you delete it. > > I think that LESSCHARSET=latin1 as default wouldn't trash your console and > it would show most of what it should show ...
AFAIK, less already is 8-bit aware, no changes needed. So Alex, don't worry about that. -- Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experimental Univ. de La Laguna -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
