Re: Less on 6.2

[Bob Taylor <brtaylor inreach com>]

In message <Pine LNX 4 21 0007302319010 910-100000 master Infinity-ltd
.com>, "M
ikkel L. Ellertson" writes:
cc:  redhat-list redhat com
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Bob Taylor wrote:
> 
> > Anyone know the secret to get less to display in its own "window" (it 
> > doesn't write on the xterm). As far as I can see it's not in the man 
> > page. This is one of the "little" things that bugs me.
> > 
> > TIA
> > 
> > Bob
> > 
> > 
> If I understand you correctly, you would like less to open a new window,
> instead of its output showing up in the xterm you typed the command on, or
> you have it as a menu command in X, and it doesn't work.

Sorry this is not what I want. I'm not sure how to explain it better. 
I type less <somefile> in an xterm OR console and less does not 
actually write on the xterm/console. In other words when I exit less 
what it has printed disappears leaving my screen the same way it was 
before I typed less.

Less worked this way in 5.2. What I want to know is how can I get 
this behavior back?

TIA

Bob

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