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RE: MSVC compilation patch: less from GnuWin32
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
RE: MSVC compilation patch: less from GnuWin32 |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Nov 2006 11:54:44 -0500 |
On 7-Nov-2006, address@hidden wrote:
| It's not a bug, it's a feature :-)
|
| Looking at Less code, it appears that the -X flag disable the terminal
| initialization. This code is responsible for calculating the size of the
| Windows console, storing the current console buffer, and so on.
| When this flag is set, Less does not know about the console size and
| does not restore the console state on exit. So it really looks like the
| -X flag does not have the same meaning as in the UNIX version.
OK. Is there a way to determine that the gnuwin32 version of less is
being used? What does less --version return?
jwe