Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/10/30/10:05:53
At 11.51 1997-10-30 +0200, you wrote:
>
>On 28 Oct 1997, Darrel Hankerson wrote:
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>> less (lss332b.zip) has a several-second startup time on Win95
>> (486-66, 16meg). There is no delay on Win-3.1 (Pentium-75).
>
>Please tell more. Exactly how did you call Less, and what is included
>in your definition of ``startup time''?
>
>I use Less a lot on DOS, Windows 3.X and Windows 95, and don't see any
>such slow start on any of these systems.
Well, I can get a slow startup sometimes, but that probably depends on the
fact that the program which are to generate the output takes some time to
execute, since I suppose that program is run completely before less
handles the output of it. Pipes don't work to well under DOS! :(
-- Peter Palotas alias Blizzar -- blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se --
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