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From:	"Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
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Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2001 00:36:17 +0200
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Subject:	Re: Behaviour of less
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Gardian, Milan schrieb am 2001-09-18, 19:14:

>Hello,
>
>I have the following behaviour of less command: it lists contents of the
>specified file into terminal OK, but when I (q)uit it, the listed contents
>disappears.
[...]
>Is this a 'normal' behaviour? Is there a way to disable this behaviour of
>'less' command (cleaning of its output)? Or is this a problem with my Cygwin
>installation?

Yes.  Yes.  No.

Try:
$ less --help

And now after we've learned:
$ less -XF --help

Ciao,

Gerrit


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