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- From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: is there any more or less program like less (I'm serious)
- Message-ID: <59036@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 16:28:59 GMT
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- Reply-To: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
- Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED
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- For the people who are interested, I wrote to Bill Hawes about
- the interaction between WShell 2.0 pipes and "More". I reported that
- "More" displays extra blank lines when reading from a WShell pipe.
- Here is Bill Hawes' explanation:
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- >From: Bill Hawes <72230.267@compuserve.com>
- >Subject: Re: WShell and "More"?
- >Date: 22 Jan 93 08:09:13 EST
- >
- >The MORE program has a bug whereby an extra line feed in inserted if it
- >reads a short buffer from input. The PIP: device doesn't rebuffer the
- >characters written to it (so that the block structure is preserved), so the
- >MORE program ends up reading lots of short buffers and adding extra
- >linefeeds. I'm told that the bug will be fixed in the next release of MORE.
- > -Bill
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- Dan
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