Date:	Wed, 12 Apr 1995 14:28:39 +0300
From:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il. (Eli Zaretskii)
To:	erik AT tntnhb3 DOT tn DOT tudelft DOT nl
Subject:	Re: Compiling LESS with djgpp?
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> I would like to know whether anyone has compiled a recent version of LESS
> (I am currently using v2.78 on my UNIX workstation, but I believe a newer
> version has already been released) with djgpp.

I have a working version of Less 278 compiled with DJGPP 1.12, and
intend in the next few days to compile v290.

> I have tried to do it myself but djgpp choked on some header file because
> of a parse error. Before trying too long, I thought it would be better to ask
> here first...

Header files was the least of my porting problems.  There is a whole bunch
of functions I wrote from scratch (screen manipulation without ANSI/termcap),
which isn't there in the official distribution (yet; I'm planning to send my
diffs to the author which said he would incorporate them, so hopefully future
versions will have DJGPP support built-in).  There are also some minor points
like PC keys support, (the lack of) signals in DJGPP 1.x, and so on.

If anybody wants the binary, I can send it (or upload it to e.g. omnigate, if
enough people want it).  As for the sources, I prefer to port v290 first and
generate diffs against that version.

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