Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 16:50:16 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Ruiter de M <mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Bug in Less 3.21
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On 28 May 1997, Ruiter de M wrote:

> Also (while we are at it) I noticed that the log file function (the
> 's'-key) very often gives me the message:
> 
> 'Warning: log file is incomplete'.
> 
> Is this a feature?

That's a feature.  Since Less doesn't read the entire file into memory, if
you press `s' too late into browsing the file, when its beginning is no
longer in Less's memory, or if you skip large parts of the file, it would
print such a warning.  This should only happen when Less gets its input
from a pipe. 

> :) Anyone got a workaround (besides to look at the
> source-code itself, although that's not quite 'around' :-) ?

Start Less with -o or -O option, then it will begin logging right from 
the beginning.  Otherwise, wait for the port of the next version of 
Less.  It should correct this.