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From: "Gardian, Milan" <Milan DOT Gardian AT LEIBINGER DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Behaviour of less
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 19:14:21 +0200
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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.

Example:
---
% less file
Hello world
This is a line
[END]
---

now I press 'q':
---
% less file

%
---

once again:
---
% less file

% less file
Hello world
This is a line
[END]
---

after pressing 'q':
---
% less file

% less file

%
---

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?


My configuration:
=================
    OS: Win2k
Cygwin: 1.3.3-2 (latest)
  less: 358.3 (latest)
CYGWIN: (not defined)
  LESS: (not defined)

Please note that I have tried to define LESS environment variable:
  export LESS='--no-init' #alias -X
Afterwards less behaves almost the way I would like it to - no clearing of
output, but it has some strange side-effects, e.g. when going backwards and
forwards heavily the terminal buffer is incrementally filled, or when using
less in an empty window to display a file smaller than one page, empty lines
are prepended to the output, etc.

Could anybody help me with this?

Cheers,

	Milan

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