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- Date: 11 Apr 91 05:05:37 GMT
- From: mlord@bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
- Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
- Subject: v11i138: myless, file viewer
- Summary: An implementation of the 'less' file viewer from UNIX
- Keywords: less, util
-
- The following is an archive containing the binary and DOCs for the
- version of LESS.EXE that I have modified for use on PCs.
-
- It is based on the sources for LESS V62 (unix termcap), and has been
- converted (by me) to use the Turbo C++ video library for determining
- screen sizes and performing video I/O and scrolling.
-
- As such, it works with *any* screen size, and does NOT require a
- *ANSI.SYS driver.
-
- Other enhancements include the ability to invoke vi or elvis with the
- current line number, and a special search routine that deals
- intelligently with backspaces in formatted nroff documents (such as
- *nix man pages). Regular expression matching is also included, as per
- the original sources.
-
- My favorite "LESS" environment variable setting is:
-
- set LESS=bp50 semPm<--Less-->FoP
-
- I have had a lot of demand for this lately on the net, so perhaps a
- more general distribution is in order.
-
- Given sufficient demand, I may also post the source code some day.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Mark Lord (MLORD@BNR.CA)
-