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- From: droege@infko.uni-koblenz.de (Detlev Droege)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Shell escape in less?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.154347.15807@infko.uucp>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 15:43:47 GMT
- References: <59376@mimsy.umd.edu>
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- In article <59376@mimsy.umd.edu> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul31.212410.18632@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> wasfy@nic.gac.edu
- writes:
- > > Whenever I try to use the shell escape in less my
- > > system struggles for about 15 seconds and finally locks.
- > > Has anyone experienced this type of behavior from
- > > less? If so, does anyone know a workaround? Thanks in advance!
- >
- > I tried this with the intention of disproving that anything was wrong
- > with less on the NeXT - as I've found less to a great improvement over more.
- > The same thing happened, but I managed to kill the parent shell before
- > the crash, barely. Its true :(
-
- The NeXT (2.1) version of less is very old (v97). It's buggy in just this
- place (some memory allocation bug, I think). I compiled the latest
- version from the archives (I got v177), changed it a little (as I wanted to
- keep the meaning of 'N" and 'P' by default) it it works fine ..
-
- Detlev
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