Via: uk.ac.ulcc.vmsfe; Thu, 28 Jul 1994 14:54:54 +0100
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 14:54 GMT
From: "Kevin Ashley, Systems Development, ULCC" <CZIWKGA AT VMSFE DOT ULCC DOT AC DOT UK>
To: DJGPP <DJGPP AT SUN DOT SOE DOT CLARKSON DOT EDU>
Subject: less and djgpp (was Re: 1.12 status)

Mark A Denner recently wrote:
>

<<deletia>>>

>>> 
>>> I also added sed-1.18 to djgpp.  Sed-2.05 is much slower and uses much
>>> more memory, so I used sed-1.18.
>>> 
>>
>>  What?  No 'egrep'?  No 'less'?  Geeze... (hehehe 8-)
>>
>        I was toying with compiling less when I get DJGPP on my new desktop 
>computer.  Hasn't someone already done this?

It was one of the first things I tried doing, and I tried again
most recenly with 1.09. I got stuck because there was no equivalent of
something to put the keyboard input into raw mode, where characters
would be returned to reads immediately (yes, I know about getkey(),
but I was trying to avoid wholesale rewrites of the code, which
simply uses getc() extensively.)

I also had problems forcing standard output to be buffered the
way I wanted it ; I could never be confident that the last
line of output had actually got out, even though I thought I was
making standard output unbuffered. I'm not sure if anyone else has
succeeded with this.

Kevin Ashley (K DOT Ashley AT ulcc DOT ac DOT uk)