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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:24:06 +0200
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From: Michael Schaap <cygwin AT mscha DOT com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: termcap-20010825-1
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At 09:55 27-8-2001, Keith Starsmeare wrote:
>Is there a way to stop less recovering the previous screen? I often find it
>quite handy to be able to see the file I've just looked at. On systems where
>more/less does this I often find myself 'cat'ing the file afterwards so that
>I can still see it!

Have you checked "less --help" or "man less"?

(Hint: I have "alias more='less -X -F'")

  - Michael

-- 
     I always wondered about the meaning of life.   So I looked it
     up in the dictionary under "L" and there it was - the meaning
     of life.  It was not what I expected.                  - Dogbert 


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