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- === NOTE: THIS IS A DISTRIBUTION OF less (version 278) ===
- === PLEASE REPORT ANY PROBLEMS TO THE AUTHOR AT markn@3do.com. ===
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-
- This is the distribution of "less", a paginator similar to "more" or "pg".
- The formatted manual page is in less.man.
- The manual page nroff source is in less.nro.
- Major changes made since the last posted version are in NEWS.
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- INSTALLATION (Unix systems only):
-
- 1. Move the distributed source to its own directory and
- unpack it by running "sh" or "unshar" on the distribution
- files, if you have not already done so.
-
- 2. Type "sh configure".
- This will generate a Makefile and a defines.h.
- Warning: if you have a GNU sed, make sure it is version 2.05 or later.
-
- 3. It is a good idea to look over the generated Makefile and defines.h
- and make sure they look ok. If you know of any peculiarities of
- your system that configure might not have detected, you may fix the
- Makefile now.
-
- If you wish, you may edit defines.h to remove some optional features.
- If you wish to build a "secure" version of less (which disables all
- features which might allow a user to do unintended things to the system
- on which less is running), edit defines.h and define SECURE to 1.
- If you choose not to include some features in your version, you may
- wish to edit the manual page "less.nro" and the help page "less.hlp"
- to remove the descriptions of the features which you are removing.
-
- 4. Type "make" and watch the fun.
-
- If you want less to find the help file in a directory other than
- the default (/usr/local/share), define "datadir" to that directory.
- For example: "make datadir=/usr/local/helpfiles"
-
- 5. If the make succeeds, it will generate a program "less"
- in your current directory. Test the generated program.
-
- 6. When satisfied that it works, if you wish to install it
- in a public place, type "make install".
-
- The default install destinations are:
- Executables (less, lesskey) in /usr/local/bin
- Data files (less.hlp) in /usr/local/share
- Documentation (less.nro, lesskey.nro) in /usr/local/man/man1
- If you want to install any of these files elsewhere, define
- bindir, datadir, and/or mandir to the appropriate directories.
- datadir must be defined the same as in step 4.
-
- If you have any problems building or running "less", suggestions,
- complaints, etc., you may mail to the author at markn@3do.com
-
- Note to hackers: comments noting possible improvements are enclosed
- in double curly brackets {{ like this }}.
-
-
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- INSTALLATION (MS-DOS systems only)
-
- 1. Move the distributed source to its own directory.
- Make sure the source has been converted to have CR-LF rather than
- LF as line terminators.
-
- 2. Rename MAKEFILE.DOS to MAKEFILE.
-
- 3. Look at MAKEFILE to make sure that the definitions for CC and LIBDIR
- are correct. CC should be the name of your Microsoft C compiler and
- LIBDIR should be the directory where the Microsoft C libraries
- reside. If these definitions need to be changed, you can either
- modify the definitions directly in MAKEFILE, or set your environment
- variables CC and/or LIBDIR to override the definitions in MAKEFILE.
-
- 4. If you wish, you may edit DEFINES.DOS to remove some optional features.
- If you choose not to include some features in your version, you may
- wish to edit the manual page LESS.MAN and the help page LESS.HLP
- to remove the descriptions of the features which you are removing.
-
- 5. Type "make" and watch the fun.
- You may need to invoke "make -e", if your "make" requires the -e
- flag to import environment variables.
- If your compiler runs out of memory, try running "make -n >cmds.bat"
- and then run cmds.bat.
-
- 6. If the make succeeds, it will generate a program "LESS.EXE"
- in your current directory. Test the generated program.
-
- 7. When satisfied that it works, you may wish to install LESS.EXE,
- LESSKEY.EXE and LESS.HLP in a directory which is included in
- your PATH.
-
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- INSTALLATION (OS/2 systems only)
-
- 1. Move the distributed source to its own directory.
-
- 2. Rename Makefile.os2 to Makefile.
-
- 3. Check the Makefile to make sure the definitions look ok.
-
- 4. If you wish, you may edit defines.os2 to remove some optional features.
- If you choose not to include some features in your version, you may
- wish to edit the manual page less.man and the help page less.hlp
- to remove the descriptions of the features which you are removing.
-
- 5. Type "make" and watch the fun.
-
- 6. If the make succeeds, it will generate a program "less.exe"
- in your current directory. Test the generated program.
-
- 7. Make sure you have the emx runtime installed. You need the emx DLLs
- emx.dll and emxlibcs.dll and also the termcap database, termcap.dat.
- Make sure you have termcap.dat either in the default location or
- somewhere in a directory listed in the PATH or INIT environment
- variables.
-
- 8. When satisfied that it works, you may wish to install less.exe,
- lesskey.exe and less.hlp in a directory which is included in
- your PATH.
-
-