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- From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
- Subject: Re: Less gives false warnings
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.162059.12758@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Keywords: termcap, less
- Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System)
- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- References: <1992Sep2.105254.15291@kth.se>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:20:59 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- In article <1992Sep2.105254.15291@kth.se> d88-jwn@dront.nada.kth.se (Johan W}hlin) writes:
- >In article <C-AMB.92Sep1101734@solitude.math.utah.edu> c-amb@math.utah.edu (Mark B. Alston) writes:
- >> When ever I use less, in either vga or svga modes, it warns me
- >>that the terminal can't clear to line, move up, ... But, once I hit
- >>enter to continue, less is able to perform all of these functions. I
- >>am using the termcap from the 0.97.1 root disk. Is there a way to
- >>tell less that it really can perform these tricks?
- >
- >I had this problem and copied the entry for the 80x25 term into the terminal
- >mode I always use. The construct with refering to that entry did thus not work.
- >I did not fiddle around since I always use this term mode.
-
- The problem that both of you had is a less compiled with an old
- termcap library that did not know how to handle the :tc=con-unk:
- entries in most of the termcap virtual terminal entries.
-
- The best fix is to get the source for less (from prep.ai.mit.edu or
- elsewhere) and recompile less, and I also suspect the version from the
- MCC interim version does not have this problem.
-
- --
- + Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
- | Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- | jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
- + or jwinstea@fenris.Claremont.EDU
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