Re: A problem with "less"

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

This works fine for me with the latest stuff.  You can try the following:

   1. Look at the output of cygcheck -s -r -v.  If you don't find anything
      useful, try sending it to the list.

   2. See if the output from running strace with less provides anything 
      useful.

   3. Actually debug less/cygwin1.dll with gdb to see where the problem 
      occurs for you.

Hope that helps,

Larry


At 01:38 PM 1/22/2001, Mike Bresnahan wrote:
>I've experienced this problem also and it is not fixed in the latest
>releases.  You can work around it by doing the following:
>
>cat file | less
>
>Less does not have the same problem when reading from a pipe.  I don't know
>why.
>
>Mike Bresnahan
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) <lhall@rfk.com>
>To: Ivan Dobrianov <id11@cornell.edu>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 11:53 AM
>Subject: Re: A problem with "less"
>
>
> > At 12:02 PM 1/19/2001, Ivan Dobrianov wrote:
> > >I have been using cygwin B20 on WinNT/2000 for quite some time now and
> > >quite happily.
> > >
> > >I have a small problem with less on "most" machines: the 'G' command (go
> > >to end of file) doesn't work right. It clears the screen and prints the
> > >first line at the bottom. 'g' (go to the top) works just fine as do most
> > >other basic commands (e.g. '88g' goes to the 88th line, '90p' goes to
> > >90% of the file etc). If I say "less --help", the 'G' works right
> > >though! It also seems to work right on all files on at least one
> > >machine.
> > >
> > >Any guesses as to what may be wrong?
> >
> >
> >
> > No idea.  However, you should probably upgrade to the latest release by
> > visiting www.cygwin.com and clicking on "Install Now".  In addition to
> > getting the most up-to-date software and possibly fixing your problem,
> > you'll find folks on this list are a bit more responsive to problems found
> > using the current software.
> >
> >
> >
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