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1. Globbing
Unlike unix less, globbing is not handled by the shell, but
internally for command line arguments, and by vecho.exe for the "e"
command (this should be internalized). See os2_glob.txt for globbing
rules.
2. Scrolling
Screen manipulation is done with OS/2's built-in ansi, which
unfortunately does not provide scrolling commands. Therefore true
back-scrolling is not implemented (the screen will still display the
correct part of the file).
3. Window Sizing
less will recognize window size changes done with a
shell-escaped "mode" command and adjust accordingly.
4. Environment Variables
LESSTERM is new and takes precedence over TERM.
COMSPEC is used, rather than SHELL, to specify the default shell.
5. The on-the-fly uncompress in Kai Rommel's port of less 170 is not
implemented. To view a compressed file, do "zcat < filename | less"
from the command line, or if you're already viewing the file in less,
try "gmaG|auncompress|less".
6. In addition to the keys listed in less.man, DOWN, PGDOWN, UP, PGUP,
HOME, END, F1 (help), and ESC (quit) may be used.
7. less uses a slightly different character set from the latin1
character set used in unix less. See charset.c for details.
John Kim (jhrv@midway.uchicago.edu)
Center for Population Economics
University of Chicago