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Message-Id: <200001252118.QAA10432@delorie.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:38:02 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Less v340 uploaded
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

This is to announce that the DJGPP port of version 340 of the GNU
Less package is available from SimTel.NET mirrors worldwide:

 ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/lss340b.zip
 ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/lss340s.zip

Less is a text file browser and much more.  In addition to features that 
you'd expect (paging up and down through the file, searching, marking
places and jumping between them, viewing several files in a single 
session), it also provides many unusual extensions.  Examples include 
file-name completion, ability to invoke arbitrary shell commands or pipe 
parts of the file to those commands, fully customizable key bindings, etc.

The DJGPP version uses colors to designate bold, underlined, and 
inverse-video text.

The changes since the previous version 332 are mostly bugfixes and a 
couple of new minor features; see the file NEWS for details.  Some of the 
bugs that are now fixed are DJGPP-specific: Less no longer leaves the 
console in raw mode when invoking subsidiary programs, and does not 
truncate the value of the LESS environment variable when running 
subprograms.  Horizontal scrolling now works correctly.

The lessecho program is now part of the distribution.  It is not really 
needed in the DJGPP environment, but since the original GNU package 
installs it unconditionally, I decided to include it in lss34b.zip.

Less used to support DJGPP right out of the box, but this support has 
somewhat deteriorated lately, due to several changes that were made in 
DJGPP-specific parts but never reported to any DJGPP forum (AFAIK).  So 
this port is slightly different from the official GNU release.

Please direct any further discussions about this port to 
comp.os.msdos.djgpp news group (or write to its e-mail gateway 
djgpp AT delorie DOT com).

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