On 31-Jul-00 Bob Taylor wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> .com>, "M
> ikkel L. Ellertson" writes:
> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Bob Taylor wrote:
>>
>> > Anyone know the secret to get less to display in its own "window" (it
>> > doesn't write on the xterm). As far as I can see it's not in the man
>> > page. This is one of the "little" things that bugs me.
>> >
>> > TIA
>> >
>> > Bob
>> >
>> >
>> If I understand you correctly, you would like less to open a new window,
>> instead of its output showing up in the xterm you typed the command on, or
>> you have it as a menu command in X, and it doesn't work.
>
> Sorry this is not what I want. I'm not sure how to explain it better.
> I type less <somefile> in an xterm OR console and less does not
> actually write on the xterm/console. In other words when I exit less
> what it has printed disappears leaving my screen the same way it was
> before I typed less.
>
> Less worked this way in 5.2. What I want to know is how can I get
> this behavior back?
hmm... I'm using RH6.2, and less is working exactly as you're describing.
My TERM is set as "xterm".
-Greg
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E-Mail: Gregory Hosler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 31-Jul-00
Time: 17:10:14
If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed...
...Oh, wait a minute, he already does.
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