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From: arromdee AT rahul DOT net (Ken Arromdee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Help, also Windows 2000 help...
Date: 31 Oct 2000 23:32:25 GMT
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In article <9003-Tue31Oct2000210649+0200-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
Eli Zaretskii <djgpp AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>> There's nothing obvious in the docs about the syntax used in one.
>The syntax is documented in the kb.info file.  From the DOS prompt,
>type "info know hidden djgpp"

I don't have kb.info.  The only packages I got were grep, less, fileutils,
tar, and gzip.  I also tried install.exe but it proved useless.

>> Also, I'm running on Windows 2000 and when I run "less" it has an odd
>> behavior.  Either it is only accepting keypresses in twos, or it is only
>> displaying the screen after every two keypresses, which makes the program
>> virtually unusable.  Is this a known problem and is there any workaround or
>> any chance that I can get a different version and it would work?
>What version of Less is that?
>I didn't have any problems with Less 340 on Windows NT 4.

It is 358.  I just tried 340 and it gave me the same problem.

I also ran into another problem: if I have a cmd.exe window set up to have
more lines than are in the window, so I can scroll back, any attempt to run a
djgpp program causes all the scrollback to be gone with the scroll bar
starting at the top again.

At least the long filenames work on Windows 2000.
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       Ken Arromdee / arromdee AT rahul DOT net / http://www.rahul.net/arromdee

      "Eventually all companies are replaced."  --Bill Gates, October 1999

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