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This version of less 232 runs on OS/2 2.x.
It can display files compressed by popular Unix file compression
programs (such as, gzip, compress and freeze, which are also available
for OS/2) transparently. Such files are detected by their magic number
and may have ANY filename/extension. For compressed files, the
decompression command is started in the background and its output is
piped into less. No temporary files are created.
A sample keyboard mapping file is included as lesskey.inp. With the
lesskey program, a file less.ini can be generated from it, which is
automatically looked for by less, when starting.
The less.ini, less.hlp and termcap.dat files must be placed somwhere in
the PATH. Alternatively, less.ini and termcap.dat can be placed into the
directory pointed to by the INIT environment variable.
HPFS file names are supported, of course.
A patch by Paul Lew for highlighting of found strings (after search
commands) has been partially added (only what was really needed of it).
Besides changes to the existing source code (patches.os2), a custom
defines.h file for OS/2 is provided as defines.os2, a new module
(zfiles.c) was added and a Makefile for OS/2 is provided as
Makefile.os2.
The source code for Fred Fish's termcap library is also included.
To recompile, the emx+gcc compiler (at least 0.8h) is required. To run
the provided executables, you need the emx runtime library (emx.dll and
emxlibc.dll).
Kai Uwe Rommel
rommel@ars.muc.de